The results of this cost-utility analysis suggest that implementing anticoagulation clinics, with and without the use of point-of-care devices, can be cost effective in the Argentinean setting

The addition of point-of-care devices to anticoagulation clinics was shown to increase savings, mainly due to optimized extraction time and faster results.

This is the first economic study of its kind to analyze anticoagulation clinics and point-of-care devices implementation for anticoagulated patients from the perspective of payers in the Argentinean health system.