Mark Crowther

TL;DR: Strong recommendations apply to most patients, whereas weak recommendations are sensitive to differences among patients, including their preferences.

TL;DR: Guyatt et al. as mentioned in this paper presented the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) and provided specific management recommendations for the first 1 or 2 days for most individuals.

TL;DR: This review identified the need for additional studies in many key areas of the therapy of ITP such as comparative studies of "front-line" therapy for ITP, the management of serious bleeding in patients withITP, and studies that will provide guidance about which therapy should be used as salvage therapy for patients after failure of a first-line intervention.

TL;DR: The eighth iteration of the American College of Chest Physicians Antithrombotic Guidelines presented, in a paper version, a narrative evidence summary and rationale for the recommendations, a small number of evidence profiles summarizing bodies of evidence, and some articles with quite extensive summary tables of primary studies.

TL;DR: There is a large amount of evidence on laboratory and clinical characteristics of vitamin K antagonists and a growing body of evidence is becoming available on the first new oral anticoagulant drugs available for clinical use, dabigatran and rivaroxaban.