Healthcare Innovation September 17, 2024
Dashboard was developed by the VA in 2016 to highlight and optimize the treatment of patients with direct oral anticoagulants
A research study suggests that use of an online dashboard can help doctors and pharmacists treating people with blood thinners reduce the rate of inappropriate dosing — as well as blood clots and strokes that can result from it.
The online dashboard, developed by the U.S. Veterans Health Administration in 2016, was designed to highlight and optimize the treatment of patients with direct oral anticoagulants, or DOACs, the most commonly prescribed blood thinners.
Researchers led by Michigan Medicine used the tool to assess more than 120,000 cases in which patients with atrial fibrillation or venous thromboembolism, blood clots in...
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