CAP Today; January, 2011

In case you haven’t seen it, there is an excellent article on coagulation testing basicsby Dr. William Check in the January CAP Today. It is the cover story and featuresDorothy M. (Adcock) Funk, MD, Medical Director and Laboratory Director, Esoterix Coagulation, John D. Olson, MD, PhD, Director of Clinical Laboratories, University of Texas Health Science Center, and Kandice Kottke-Marchant, MD, PhD, Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. In addition, Anne Paxton provides an article on home testing of the prothrombin time/INR in patients on Coumadin featuring Dr. David Matchar, David Phillips, Paul S. Savuto, and Dr. Jack Ansell.