Acknowledgements

The Clinical Affairs and Quality and Regulatory Affairs teams wish to recognize the many individuals who were willing to share their excellent work with colleagues who will be using this guide to help improve anticoagulant safety.  Many of the samples, examples and templates above were provided by these individuals.  Your generosity and dedication to excellence in health care are greatly appreciated.

We understand that many, probably most, of the submitted materials are not the product of a single person’s work.  We regret that we cannot acknowledge the efforts of everyone involved in preparing them and we apologize if we have inadvertently overlooked anyone who submitted materials but is not named below.  We have removed all text and logos that might be used to identify the originating institution from these files, but we are pleased to list the affiliations of our contributors.

• Mitch Brown, St. Francis Medical Center

• Beth Clements, Spectrum Health

• Tommy Cobb, Pharmacy Management

• Larry Davis, Riverside Health System

• Dee Ann Estes, St. Luke's Medical Center

• Ruth Fenstermacher, Riverside Walter Reed Hospital

• Deb Fluno, Pharmacy Management

• Paul Gau, Iasis Healthcare Phoenix

• Shiva Kamran-Pirzaman, Scripps Memorial Hospital—La Jolla

• Hani Makar, Salt Lake Regional Medical Center

• Karen Michaels, Suburban Hospital

• Dan Morrison, Bluefield Regional Medical Center

• Natasha Nicol, Pharmacy Management

• Mark Parmenter, Scripps Health

• Doug Rasmussen, Pharmacy Management

• Teresa Seo, Hospital of St. Raphael

• Stacy Taylor, St. Joseph Health System

• Jen Van Cura, King’s Daughters Medical Center

• Jim Vieira, Pharmacy Management

• Katy Wright, Pharmacy Management

• John Zarek, Swedish Medical Center

Also, special thanks go to Angela Gomez and Carlos Martinez from Training and Clinical Education for their excellent work in preparing anticoagulation educational materials and to Stephanie Roberts, Marketing Specialist, for her assistance in editing some of the resource documents.

Thank you from all of us involved in preparing this guide.

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