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

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

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 patients are...

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Main Authors: Manu N Capoor, Jerry L Stonemetz, John C Baird, Fahad S Ahmed, Ahsan Awan, Christof Birkenmaier, Mario A Inchiosa, Steven K Magid, Kathryn McGoldrick, Ernesto Molmenti, Sajjad Naqvi, Stephen D Parker, S M Pothula, Aryeh Shander, R Grant Steen, Michael K Urban, Judith Wall, Vincent A Fischetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4532488?pdf=render

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