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USING THE INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO TO STANDARDIZE PROTHROMBIN TIME

1997; Elsevier BV; Volume: 128; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.14219/jada.archive.1997.0369

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Richard Stern, VASILIKl KARLIS, Lisa F. Kinney, Robert Glickman,

Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management

The international normalized ratio, or INR, was introduced in 1983 by the World Health Organization, or WHO, Committee on Biological Standards to more accurately assess patients receiving anticoagulation therapy. The INR mandates the universal standardization of prothrombin time. This article describes the method used to calculate INR, as well as its clinical relevance to the practice of dentistry.