Open AccessImproving Local Practice of Venous Thromboembolism Prevention in Medical Patients
Author(s) -
Irvine Nj,
James C. Paterson
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
acute medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-4892
pISSN - 1747-4884
DOI - 10.52964/amja.0166
Subject(s) - medicine , venous thromboembolism , medical prescription , nice , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , clinical practice , emergency medicine , family medicine , surgery , thrombosis , nursing , computer science , programming language
Venous thromboembolism has long been recognised as a potentially avoidable cause of significant morbidity and mortality in hospitalised patients. With national recommendations awaited there have been clear instructions from the department of health that steps need to be made at a local level to increase awareness and address the problem prior to the expected completion of the NICE guidelines in 2007. We demonstrated an improvement in the prescription of thromboprophylaxis following implementation of simple and inexpensive changes in our department.