Zelfmanagement van antistollingsbehandeling – consequenties voor de toekomst?

Recent meta-analysis has demonstrated that self-management in oral anticoagulant therapy results in fewer thromboembolic complications and a decrease in mortality in comparison to conventional treatment, while the number of bleeding complications remains unchanged. We discuss the importance of these findings for the situation in the Netherlands with its specialized anticoagulation clinics and the possible consequences for the introduction of new anticoagulants like dabigatran and rivaroxaban.

Conflict of interest: none declared. Financial support: none declared.