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December 8, 2025BloodOpen Access

Standardizing VTE prophylaxis in the inpatient setting: A quality improvement project

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DNDevang NamjoshiSKSharouk KhanjarNTNitin Trivedi

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Overview

Quality improvement project shows discrepancies in VTE prophylaxis practices, indicating a need for standardized protocols.

Key Points

  • The aim is to evaluate VTE prophylaxis practices and standardize care in hospitalized patients.
  • Retrospective review of adult inpatients using electronic health records
  • Data collected included demographics, admission diagnoses, comorbidities, and VTE risk factors
  • Risk stratification utilized the Padua Scale for assessing VTE risk
  • Out of 1,574 medical inpatients, 70.7% received VTE prophylaxis, but only 59.2% appropriately
  • 22.3% of low-risk patients (Padua score <4) received unnecessary prophylaxis
  • 0.3% experienced VTE events during hospitalization, highlighting discrepancies in treatment effectiveness.

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Namjoshi et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69362f4b4fa91c937236d7d7https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2025-2620
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