Following implementation of a computerized decision support application to improve VTE prophylaxis on 2 hospital medicine services, we observed a significant increase in the rate of overall and ...

Use of aspirin postoperatively in patients treated with orthopedic oncology surgery may be suitable and effective for venous thromboembolic chemoprophylaxis, according to results published in The ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2012;69(8):658-663. There are inherent limitations to the determination of VTE risk in the population of patients with cirrhosis. In most of the studies evaluated in this ...

Guidelines for VTE Prophylaxis in Nonsurgical Patients Issued New evidence-based clinical practice guidelines have been issued for the prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in nonsurgical ...

Impact of early engagement of patients with clinical trial information in a system-based multidisciplinary breast cancer clinic on clinical trial enrollment. Step 1. Draft a single VTE protocol using ...

In total hip or total knee arthroplasty, hypercoagulability typically begins on the operating table and a hypercoagulable state persists for up to 3 months after surgery. For that reason, it is ...

"We still have a lot of work ahead to define what the most informative prediction/scoring VTE systems are, for both newly diagnosed and relapsed/refractory MM patients, and how we can make them more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Postoperative unfractionated heparin in addition to aspirin for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis is not ...

Venous thromboembolisms are the leading cause of preventable hospital death, underscoring the need for clinical leaders to build a strong prevention program. During a March 24 webinar hosted by Becker ...

Credit: Getty Images. Researchers found that from the preintervention to postintervention period, the conditional odds of VTE prophylaxis nonadministration decreased significantly on intervention ...

Paul P. Dobesh, PharmD, explained that the approval of betrixaban was important for several reasons: VTE events continue to occur during hospitalization and following discharge, despite the standard ...

Almost half of outpatient VTE cases can be traced to hospitalization or outpatient surgery; clinicians must, therefore, institute guideline-specified in-hospital prophylaxis, which should be continued ...