Effect of distance to health facility on the maintenance of INR therapeutic ranges in rheumatic heart disease patients from Cape Town: no evidence for an association

BACKGROUND: Lack of adherence to international normalised ratio (INR) monitoring in rheumatic heart disease (RHD) patients is a contributor to cardio-embolic complications. This population-based observational study investigated whether the distance between home and an INR clinic affects the maintena...

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Autores principales: Barth, Dylan D, Zühlke, Liesl J, Joachim, Alexia, Hoegger, Tyler, Mayosi, Bongani M, Engel, Mark E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26041470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0890-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26041470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0890-4

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