Following implementation of a computerized decision support application to improve VTE prophylaxis on 2 hospital medicine services, we observed a significant increase in the rate of overall and ...

Guidelines for VTE Prophylaxis in Nonsurgical Patients Issued New evidence-based clinical practice guidelines have been issued for the prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in nonsurgical ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2012;69(8):658-663. There are inherent limitations to the determination of VTE risk in the population of patients with cirrhosis. In most of the studies evaluated in this ...

Impact of early engagement of patients with clinical trial information in a system-based multidisciplinary breast cancer clinic on clinical trial enrollment. Step 1. Draft a single VTE protocol using ...

Once-daily venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis with 10 mg of rivaroxaban for either 7 or 28 days after bariatric surgery was found to be effective and safe. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is known ...

In total hip or total knee arthroplasty, hypercoagulability typically begins on the operating table and a hypercoagulable state persists for up to 3 months after surgery. For that reason, it is ...

"We still have a lot of work ahead to define what the most informative prediction/scoring VTE systems are, for both newly diagnosed and relapsed/refractory MM patients, and how we can make them more ...

Venous thromboembolism artery. In a study, AKI sufferers had an increased rate of venous thromboembolism whether they receive heparin prophylaxis or not. Current dosing of low-molecular weight (LMWH) ...

Credit: Getty Images. Researchers found that from the preintervention to postintervention period, the conditional odds of VTE prophylaxis nonadministration decreased significantly on intervention ...

Venous thromboembolisms are the leading cause of preventable hospital death, underscoring the need for clinical leaders to build a strong prevention program. During a March 24 webinar hosted by Becker ...

Almost half of outpatient VTE cases can be traced to hospitalization or outpatient surgery; clinicians must, therefore, institute guideline-specified in-hospital prophylaxis, which should be continued ...

ORLANDO -- Longer hospitalization for flares of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was linked to greater risk of subsequent venous thromboembolism (VTE) independent of other risk factors, according to a ...