RESOURCES
Below are links to useful anticoagulation management resources, in the form of authoritative guidelines, recent papers, books and links to third party websites. We endeavour to keep the information on this page as up-to-date as possible, so keep calling back to remain informed.
Contents
- Books
- Recent Papers
- Reference Materials
- NCAT Resource
Materials
- 3-day course resource documentation
- External Links
Books
Oral anticoagulation management and stroke prevention:
The primary care perspective (3rd Edition)
The primary care perspective provides a valuable reference source, together with a useful theoretical base to accompany the training modules currently offered by the department of primary care and general practice at the university of Birmingham.
Written in an easy-to-follow format, with specific learning outcomes and concise summaries for each chapter, this book is essential reading for any practice interested in developing its expertise in these two areas.
"The content is of high standard, very relevant, and although I have been an anticoagulant nurse for 2 years, I still found the book to be relevant to my education."
Ruth Ogilvie, CLOT Newsletter, Summer 2002, p 2
The book costs £18.95 per copy + £3 p&p, to order a copy, please send a cheque made payable to 'University of Birmingham' and forward to:
Amy Partleton
Primary Care Clinical Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Please include your contact details at the back of the cheque.
Recent Papers
“External quality assessment (EQA) should be an inherent component of patient self-management (PSM) of oral anticoagulation.”
A recent study: Quality assurance for oral anticoagulation self management QAASM: a cluster randomised trial, has yielded results indicating patients are able to undertake a formal EQA scheme and perform more reliably at home independently. The paper is an online accepted article of the British Journal of Thrombosis and Haematosis, click here to read more...
"Patient self-monitoring is as effective as good quality specialised anticoagulation clinics in maintaining the quality of anticoagulation therapy." Health Technology Assessment 2007; Vol 11: number 38
The National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment Programme (HTA) produces independent research about the effectiveness of different healthcare treatments and tests for those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS. A systematic review and economic modelling of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different models of managing long-term oral anticoagulation therapy was recently published, it concludes 'For selected and successfully trained patients, self-monitoring is effective and safe for long term oral anticoagulation therapy.'
Read / download full text (PDF)
More information on cardiovascular research at the University of Birmingham.
Details of other research conducted by the University of Birmingham's Department of Primary Care and General Practice can be found here.
Reference Materials
Mant J, Hobbs FDR, Fletcher K, Roalfe A, Fitzmaurice DA, Lip GYH, Murray ET.
Warfarin versus aspirin for stroke prevention in an elderly population with atrial fibrillation (the Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation treatment of the Aged Study, BAFTA): a randomized controlled trial.
Lancet 2007;370:493-503
Fitzmaurice DA, Hobbs FDR, Jowett J, Mant J, Murray ET, Holder R, Raftery JP, Bryan S, Davies M, Lip GYH, Allan TF.
Screening versus routine practice in detection of atrial fibrillation in patients aged 65 or over: cluster randomised controlled trial.
BMJ 2007;335:383, doi:10.1136 / bmj.39280.660567.55 (published 2 August 2007)
T. P. Baglin,1 D. M. Keeling,2 and H. G. Watson3 for the British Committee for Standards in Haematology
Guidelines on oral anticoagulation (warfarin) ~ Third edition 2005 update
2005 British Society for Haematology, 132, 277–285
Near Patient Testing Working Party, Members of the General Haematology Task Force of BCSH, Members of the Thrombosis and Haemostasis Task Force of the BCSH
Guidelines for Near Patient Testing (NPT) ~ Haematology
Clin Lab Haem 1995 17.301-310
J. Hirsh; L. Poller
The international normalized ratio. A guide to understanding and correcting its problems
Arch Intern Med. 1994;154:282-288.
D A Fitzmaurice, S J Machin on behalf of the British Society of Haematology Task Force for Haemostasis and Thrombosis
Recommendations for patients undertaking self-management of oral anticoagulation
BMJ 2001;323:985–9
Murray, E. T. - Kitchen, D. P. - Kitchen, S. - Jennings, I. - Woods, T. A. L. - Preston, F. E. - Fitzmaurice, D. A.
Patient self-management of oral anticoagulation & external quality assessment procedures
British Journal of Haematology, 2003, 122, 825–828
L Poller, C R Shiach, P K MacCallum, A M Johansen, A M Münster, A Magalhães, J Jespersen, on behalf of the European Concerted Action on Anticoagulation
Multicentre randomised study of computerised anticoagulant dosage
Lancet 1998; 352: 1505–09
David Parry, David Fitzmaurice and James Raftery
Anticoagulation management in primary care: a trial-based econimic evaluation
British Journal of Haematology, 2000, 111, 530-533
No Authors Listed
Risk factors for stroke efficacy of antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation
Arch Intern med 1994; 154:1449-1457
D A Fitzmaurice, P Kesteven, K M Gee, E T Murray and R McManus
A systematic review of outcome measures reported for the effectiveness of oral anticoagulation
J. Clin. Pathol. 2003;56;48-51
Gualtiero Palareti, Nicoletta Leali, Sergio Coccheri, Mario Poggi, Cesare Manotti, Armando D’Angelo, Vittorio Pengo, Nicoletta Erba, Marco Moia, Nicola Ciavarella, Gianluigi Devoto, Mauro Berrettini, Serena Musolesi, on behalf of the Italian Study on Complications of Oral Anticoagulant Therapy
Bleeding complications of oral anticoagulant treatment: An inception-cohort, prospective collaborative study
Lancet 1996; 348: 423–28
FD Hobbs, DA Fitzmaurice, ET Murray, R Holder, PE Rose and JL Roper
Is the international normalized ratio (INR) reliable?
J. Clin. Pathol. 1999;52;494-497
Munir Pirmohamed, Sally James, Shaun Meakin, Chris Green, Andrew K Scott, Thomas J Walley, Keith Farrar, B Kevin Park and Alasdair M Breckenridge
Adverse drug reactions as cause of admission to hospital: prospective analysis of 18,820 patients
BMJ 2004;329;15-19
NCAT Resources (authentication required)
Accredited anticoagulation managment in primary care (3-day)
Click here to access NCAT electronic resources
External Links
http://www.thrombus.co.uk/thrombus/index.asp
We are currently reviewing our list of external links, in the mean time If you know of a web site you think should be added, please email the details...