Journal article
Using an Institute Model to Reduce the Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism Within a Large Hospital System
CRITICAL CARE NURSING QUARTERLY, v 45(4)
Oct 2022
PMID: 35980792
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Abstract
Internal benchmarking showed that the Orthopedic Institute had an above average rate of venous thromboembolism (VTE) along with other institutes. The Orthopedic VTE Quality Team was assigned to investigate opportunities for improvement to share with other institutes. To investigate the issues and barriers to the administration of chemical and mechanical VTE prophylaxis, data collection included real-time point prevalence study, physician and nursing surveys, and electronic medical record audits. The results of the data collection indicated inconsistencies in nursing and patient care. Therefore a VTE policy and VTE educational poster was developed. In conjunction, nursing education will be completed to describe the best practice for sequential compression devices and anticoagulant therapies and documentation. The physician will be notified for refusals on either mechanical or chemical prophylaxis.
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- Title
- Using an Institute Model to Reduce the Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism Within a Large Hospital System
- Publication Details
- CRITICAL CARE NURSING QUARTERLY, v 45(4)
- Publisher
- LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS; PHILADELPHIA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000841518900004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85136503475
- Other Identifier
- 991021861302804721
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