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Three keys to ensuring your anticoagulant therapy program is ready

Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), October 1, 2008

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The Joint Commission is set to survey hospitals’ anticoagulant therapy programs in January 2009, a mere three months from now. As of October, facilities are supposed to have begun pilot testing in one unit to trial the program they should have developed throughout the past year.

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