
Model of Zhu et al for Determining a Patient's Daily Dose Requirement for Warfarin
Purpose: | To determine a patient's total oral daily dose of warfarin using the model of Zhu et al. |
Specialty: | Hematology Oncology Clinical Laboratory Clinical Pharmacology |
Objective: | dosage calculations |
ICD-10: | I74, I81, I82, O88, T79.0, T79.1 |
Description: | Zhu et al developed a model for predicting the total daily dose of warfarin based on the patient's physical and genotypic features. This can control for a number of factors affecting the variability in dose. The authors are from the University of Louisville, Luminex Molecular Diagnostics and PGXL Laboratories. |
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