Problems of the laboratory control of oral anticoagulant treatment.
The paper deals with the estimation (using the Monte Carlo method) of a confidence interval for an individual patient's International Normalized Ratio (INR) of 3.3. The results show that this confidence interval ranges from an INR of 2.5 to 4.2 and is of about the same size as the therapeutic range.
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Department of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, GDR.
D000284:Administration, Oral; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D011517:Prothrombin Time
D000925:Anticoagulants