Key result
Emergency department staff with over 5 years of experience scored significantly higher on a venous thromboembolism knowledge questionnaire than those with less experience (95.75 vs. 79.97, P=0.039).
Why the study?
For emergency department patients, risk assessment, prophylaxis, early diagnosis, and appropriate treatment of VTE are essential for preventing morbidity and mortality, prompting an investigation into emergency medical staff knowledge of VTE management.
Cross-Sectional (n=174)
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Absolute Event Rate: 95.75% vs 79.97%
p-value: p=0.039
Emergency department medical staff demonstrated deficiencies in knowledge and awareness of VTE management, highlighting the need for standardized protocols and mandatory training.
BACKGROUND: For emergency department (ED) patients, risk assessment, prophylaxis, early diagnosis and appropriate treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE) are essential for preventing morbidity and mortality. This study aimes to investigate knowledge amongst emergency medical staff in the management of VTE. METHODS: We designed a questionnaire based on multiple scales. The questionnaire was distributed to the medical and nursing clinical staff in the large urban ED of a medical center in Northern China. Data was described with percentages and the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to compare ranked data between different groups. The statistical analysis was done using the SPSS 22.0 software. RESULTS: =0.039). There was a significant difference in some questions based on gender, age, job, and nurse work location, number of working years, education level, and different ED working lifetime. CONCLUSION: Our survey has shown deficiencies among ED medical staff in knowledge and awareness of the management of VTE. We recommend several changes be considered, such as the introduction of an interdisciplinary workshop for medical staff; the introduction of a standardized VTE protocol; a mandatory study module on VTE for new physicians and nurses; the introduction of a mandatory reporting system for adverse events (including VTE).
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Zhou et al. (2018) conducted a cross-sectional in Venous thromboembolism knowledge (n=174). Emergency department experience >5 years vs. Emergency department experience <5 years was evaluated on VTE knowledge questionnaire score (mean rank) (p=0.039). Emergency department staff with over 5 years of experience scored significantly higher on a venous thromboembolism knowledge questionnaire than those with less experience (95.75 vs. 79.97, P=0.039).
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