Prothrombin Time and Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time Testing: A Comparative Effectiveness Study in a Million-Patient Sample

BACKGROUND: A substantial fraction of all American healthcare expenditures are potentially wasted, and practices that are not evidence-based could contribute to such waste. We sought to characterize whether Prothrombin Time (PT) and activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) tests of preoperative...

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Autores principales: Capoor, Manu N., Stonemetz, Jerry L., Baird, John C., Ahmed, Fahad S., Awan, Ahsan, Birkenmaier, Christof, Inchiosa, Mario A., Magid, Steven K., McGoldrick, Kathryn, Molmenti, Ernesto, Naqvi, Sajjad, Parker, Stephen D., Pothula, S. M., Shander, Aryeh, Steen, R. Grant, Urban, Michael K., Wall, Judith, Fischetti, Vincent A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26261992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133317

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