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This is my first talk ever on Wikipedia, so if it isn't acceptable for any reason, please tell me!

I am a warfarin patient, so I know something personally on this subject.

I wanted to add to the article that not all individual physicians agree that self-testing of INR is accurate. I asked my doctor about self-testing, and he told me that self-testing of INR was not terribly accurate, and so he is keeping me on clinic-based INR testing for prevention of deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, both of which I have had before. So before altering a really good Wikipedia article, I did some on-line research, and found that the government and private-medical consensus approves self-testing of INR, so I have no foundation upon which to stand in order to point out that acceptance of self-testing is not universal.

So I have no basis for altering this great article, although it seems to be lacking something that I personally and deeply know about.

I won't alter an article unless I have solid evidence upon which to do so. I am a stickler for accuracy.

Globalization

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Since warfarin is used around the world, and NHS represents only one government (United States of America), having a section "government" isn't very universal. :)

Joonas Mäkinen (talk) 19:00, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]