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. 2021 Jan:197:192-194.
doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2020.11.004. Epub 2020 Nov 7.

Switching warfarin patients to a direct oral anticoagulant during the Coronavirus Disease-19 pandemic

Rachna Patel  1 , Julia Czuprynska  2 , Lara N Roberts  2 , Bipin Vadher  2 , Catherine Rea  2 , Raj Patel  2 , Emma Gee  2 , Gabrielle Saul  2 , Evelyn Coles  2 , Alison Brown  2 , Rosalind Byrne  2 , Vicky Speed  2 , Jignesh P Patel  2 , Roopen Arya  2
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Switching warfarin patients to a direct oral anticoagulant during the Coronavirus Disease-19 pandemic

Rachna Patel et al. Thromb Res. 2021 Jan.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Warfarin to DOAC virtual switching process.
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