Improving Hospital Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis with Electronic Decision Support
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This is a review of the 2013 article by Bhalla et al. [1]
Background
Complications of venous thromboembolism are a major source of morbidity in hospital inpatients. Methods of prevention are well described, but underutilized. The authors seek to evaluate the impact of a CDS system in encouraging proper VTE prophylaxis ordering.
Methods
The authors tracked inpatients at a large academic center. VTE prophylaxis ordering, and VTE events were tracked over separate 6 months periods prior to, and after implementation of the system
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References
- ↑ Bhalla, R., Berger, M. A., Reissman, S. H., Yongue, B. G., Adelman, J. S., Jacobs, L. G., … Kalkut, G. (2013). Improving hospital venous thromboembolism prophylaxis with electronic decision support. Journal of Hospital Medicine, 8(3), 115–120. http://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.1993
