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Home International Normalized Ratio Monitoring: Where Evidence-Based Medicine is Exemplified in the Medicare Coverage Process

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  1. Coverage and Analysis Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Mailstop C1-09-06, 7500 Security Blvd., Woodlawn, Maryland, 21244, USA

    Mitchell I. Burken & John J. Whyte

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Burken, M.I., Whyte, J.J. Home International Normalized Ratio Monitoring: Where Evidence-Based Medicine is Exemplified in the Medicare Coverage Process. J Thromb Thrombolysis 13, 5–7 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015328305831

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