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October 6, 2018CHEST JournalOpen Access

VTE Risk Profiles and Prophylaxis in Medical and Surgical Inpatients

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Population

13,609 adults admitted to 60 urban, tertiary Chinese hospitals due to acute medical conditions or surgery…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

ZZZhenguo ZhaiVascular MedicineQKQuancheng KanZhengzhou UniversityWLWeimin LiBeijing Chest Hospital

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Overview

Low appropriate prophylaxis in high-risk Chinese inpatients warrants caution; leaves open need for targeted quality initiatives and prospective trials.

Structured PICO

P
Population
13,609 adults admitted (≥ 72 h) to 60 urban, tertiary Chinese hospitals due to acute medical conditions (n=6,623) or surgery (n=6,986) from March to September 2016.
I
Intervention
VTE prophylaxis implementation compliant with the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) guidelines, 9th edition.
O
Outcome
Prevalence of VTE risks and rate of VTE prophylaxis implementation compliant with CHEST guidelines.

A large proportion of hospitalized patients in China have high VTE risk, but the rate of guideline-recommended prophylaxis is very low, highlighting a significant gap in clinical practice.

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Zhai et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a922f4ea10c1849f25ef034https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2018.09.020
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