Warfarin maintenance dosing patterns in clinical practice: implications for safer anticoagulation in the elderly population.

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Published in Chest on June 01, 2005

Authors

David Garcia1, Susan Regan, Mark Crowther, Robert A Hughes, Elaine M Hylek

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA. davgarcia@salud.unm.edu

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