TY - JOUR AU - Drewes, Hanneke W. AU - Lambooij, Mattijs S. AU - Baan, Caroline A. AU - Meijboom, Bert R. AU - Graafmans, Wilco C. AU - Westert, Gert P. PY - 2011 DA - 2011/01/27 TI - Differences in patient outcomes and chronic care management of oral anticoagulant therapy: an explorative study JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 18 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - The oral anticoagulant therapy - provided to prevent thrombosis - is known to be associated with substantial avoidable hospitalization. Improving the quality of the oral anticoagulant therapy could avoid drug related hospitalizations. Therefore, this study compared the patient outcomes between Dutch anticoagulant clinic (AC) regions taking the variation in chronic care management into account in order to explore whether chronic care management elements could improve the quality of oral anticoagulant therapy. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-18 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-11-18 ID - Drewes2011 ER -