Extensive education about the program was provided to hospital staff, pharmacists, physicians, nurse ... to assess patients' risk for VTE appeared to improve the use of VTE prophylaxis in medical ...

They were looking for potential risk factors beyond known ones that could help identify which patients need VTE prophylaxis. Among 519 patients with an IBD flare and hospital admission who ...

To facilitate the role of the nurse case manager, an automated VTE-riskassessment tool ... were reported for 19.1% of high-risk patients not receiving prophylaxis and pharmacologic prophylaxis ...