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Simple Warfarin Dosing Algorithm Study

NCT01008215 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 553

Last updated 2011-07-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Can a simple and cost-free tool help family physicians to improve dosing of the blood thinner warfarin?

Warfarin is a blood thinner with a variable effect and requires regular blood monitoring and dose adjustments. Some family practices do not have the facilities or funding to use commercial tools than can assist with stabilizing the effect of warfarin. The investigators will test whether a simple and cost-free dosing tool can help these practices to improve warfarin management.

If this simple tool improves warfarin management, it will be freely available for practices in Canada and around the world. This will help physicians who have no access to more costly and/or complicated tools improve their warfarin dosing practice in a systematic fashion, and thereby maximize the health benefit of warfarin.

Conditions

  • Warfarin Dosing

Interventions

OTHER

Algorithm

Warfarin Dosing algorithm (paper and electronic version)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Population Health Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stuart Connolly · McMaster University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2011-04-30
Completion
2011-06-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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