• Int J Clin Pharm · Aug 2017

    Observational Study

    Evaluation of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in a major hospital in a developing country.

    • Lubna Gharaibeh, Hanan Sartawi, Diana Ayyad, Tareq Juma, Kamal Albassoumi, and Enas Ismail.
    • Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Bio-pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. lubna_gharaibeh@yahoo.com.
    • Int J Clin Pharm. 2017 Aug 1; 39 (4): 881-887.

    AbstractBackground Venous thromboembolism is the most common preventable cause of hospital death. Despite that, there is still a large gap between what we know about venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and what is happening in current practice. Objective To evaluate VTE prophylaxis in Al-Basheer hospital and assess the extent of agreement of physicians' practice with the guidelines. Setting Al-Basheer governmental hospital in Jordan between January 2016 and June 2016. Method In this cross-sectional observational study, patients were randomly selected from medical and surgical wards. The need for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis was assessed according to the American College of Chest Physicians guideline (9th edition) for men and non-pregnant women, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidelines for pregnant women.

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