Risk Factors of Walker and Jick for Bleeding During Heparin Therapy
Purpose: | To identify a patient at risk for bleeding associated with heparin therapy using the risk factors of Walker and Jick. |
Specialty: | Hematology Oncology Clinical Laboratory Clinical Pharmacology |
Objective: | risk factors, failure handling and therapy escalation, adverse effects |
ICD-10: | R58 |
Description: | Walker and Jick identified risk factors associated with bleeding during heparin therapy. This can help identify patients who may require closer monitoring during heparin therapy or a reduced heparin dose. The authors are from Boston University Medical Center. |
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