Effectiveness of a Laboratory Gate-Keeping Strategy to Overcome Inappropriate Test Utilization for the Diagnosis of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia

Semin Thromb Hemost. 2017 Sep;43(6):645-648. doi: 10.1055/s-0037-1604054. Epub 2017 Jul 27.

Authors

Janne Cadamuro¹, Cornelia Mrazek¹, Helmut Wiedemann¹, Thomas Klaus Felder¹, Hannes Oberkofler¹, Elisabeth Haschke-Becher¹, Giuseppe Lippi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
² Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University Hospital of Verona, Verona, Italy.

PMID: 28750423
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1604054

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Anticoagulants / adverse effects
Clinical Laboratory Techniques / economics
Clinical Laboratory Techniques / methods*
Clinical Laboratory Techniques / statistics & numerical data
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Heparin / adverse effects*
Humans
Thrombocytopenia / chemically induced*
Thrombocytopenia / diagnosis*

Substances

Anticoagulants
Heparin