caa a22 4500 477061591 CHVBK 20180405111402.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01061916 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01061916 Hughes Robert Harvard Medical School and Antithrontbotic Therapy Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts aut Workshop: Reimbursement for anticoagulation services [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Hughes] Anticoagulant therapy units (ATUs) have been developed to enhance quality expertise in the care of patients receiving anticoagulant therapy with warfarin and to coordinate care. The Anticoagulation Forum, representing the program directors and staff of ATUs, surveyed its membership for its 1995 National Conference on Anticoagulation Therapy. Responses were received from 109 programs with an average of 467 patients each. The consensus of program directors was that inadequate reimbursement was an important deterrent to the expansion of such care. A review of current literature reveals substantially superior outcomes in anticoagulation units versus routine care, with estimates of 4.5 fewer major bleeding events per 100 patient-years of treatment and 6 fewer thromboembolic events per 100 patientyears of treatment. The Anticoagulation Forum encourages third-party payers to develop appropriate strategies to reimburse this type of care, which should substantially improve the outcomes of anticoagulant therapy while reducing overall costs. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 anticoagulant therapy nationallicence warfarin nationallicence reimbursement nationallicence cost effectiveness nationallicence Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 2/4(1996-03-01), 301-304 0929-5305 2:4<301 1996 2 11239 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01061916 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01061916 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hughes Robert Harvard Medical School and Antithrontbotic Therapy Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 2/4(1996-03-01), 301-304 0929-5305 2:4<301 1996 2 11239 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer