Computer assisted anticoagulant therapy

The constantly workload increase has led to the development of Computerised Decision Support Systems (CDSS) for a better management of patient care. Many clinical situations have been investigated to verify the utility of CDSS: few have demonstrated stable effects. One area where success has been reported is the field of oral anticoagulation management. CDSS system has demonstrated to be able to improve the treatment quality in comparison to manual method. In the future scenario of oral anticoagulant management CDSS will have a pivotal part, the constant increase of patients number and their pressure on thrombosis centres had led to the development of alternative models for delivery OAT: Primary care, General Practitioner, Patient self testing and self management and the use of CDSS has been central to the decentralisation process and may be useful in maintaining the efficacy and quality of anticoagulant control. GP with the aid of CDSS are able to deliver OAT as well as expert physician of Thrombosis Centre in terms of time spent by patient in therapeutic range.