Recommended method for reporting therapeutic control of oral anticoagulant therapy. Control of Anticoagulation Subcommittee of the Scientific and Standardization Committee of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

Abstract

Therapeutic control of anticoagulation consists of continuous assessment of the proportion of time spent by each patient in the target INR range. For an individual patient, PT determinations are performed at distinct time points on clinic visits, and no information is available about the anticoagulation intensity between the time points