There are considerable drawbacks to oral anticoagulant for monitoring patients at home which should lead family physicians to discuss alternative or enhanced solutions: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Transit times*

District nurses	Number in survey	Average transit time for samples in minutes	Samples with a transit time >120 minutes
Urban practice	169	110 ± 55	51%
Rural practice	80	181 ± 68	71%

(* Time necessary to transport the sample from home to laboratory).
51% of samples in urban practices and 71% in rural practices were delivered with a non-acceptable transit time.

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