Coagulation

Research from E.G. Torreiro and co-researchers in the area of coagulation described

Published in Blood Weekly, July 9th, 2009

According to a study from Spain, "The objective of the study was to compare the accuracy and clinical agreement of the CoaguChek XS versus the standard laboratory practice. Forty-one patients on long-term anticoagulation with acenocumarol without previous experience in self-monitoring participated to obtain 2 18 pairs of data."

"Several methods for comparative statistics were applied to assess the possible disagreements between techniques as well as a range of previously published criteria of clinical agreement and the very recently described error-grid for INR comparison that we partially modify. The mean age was 52.1 and the indications for oral anticoagulation were...

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