August 27, 2013Journal of Hospital Medicine
Venous thromboembolism prevention guidelines for medical inpatients: Mind the (implementation) Gap
Population
Medical inpatients at risk for hospital-associated nonsurgical venous thromboembolism (VTE)
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May favor simpler VTE risk models without CDS; leaves open optimal guideline harmonization.
Structured PICO
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Population
Medical inpatients at risk for hospital-associated nonsurgical venous thromboembolism (VTE)
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Intervention
VTE prevention guidelines (American College of Physicians [ACP] and American College of Chest Physicians [AT9]) and risk assessment models (Padua, Caprini)
This review highlights discrepancies between major VTE prevention guidelines and suggests that simpler risk-assessment models may be more practical than complex point-based systems like Padua or Caprini.
Cite This Study
Maynard et al. (2013) studied this question.