TY - JOUR T1 - Why Warfarin Should Be Managed in Primary Care JF - The Annals of Family Medicine JO - Ann Fam Med SP - 379 LP - 380 DO - 10.1370/afm.2828 VL - 20 IS - 4 AU - Katherine Montag Schafer AU - Anne Keenan Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/4/379.abstract N2 - For 5 years, our family medicine clinic’s physician-pharmacy team managed anticoagulation onsite. Now, against our recommendations and desires as a clinic, anticoagulation at our site is no longer managed by our local interdisciplinary team. Instead, it is being managed by our system’s centralized anticoagulation team. Although some may point out that anticoagulation management is one small element of our practice, we believe eliminating this could open the door to other changes to our scope of practice. Anticoagulation belongs in primary care where comprehensive care, ongoing relationships between patients and care teams, and flexible office visit agendas optimize this service. ER -