Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis
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J. Thromb. Thrombolysis · Oct 2008
Underutilization of venous thromboemoblism prophylaxis in medical patients in a tertiary care center.
New recommendations concerning the use of prophylactic anticoagulation for medically ill patients have been in use for some time now. This study aims at assessing how much house-staff in a tertiary care setting are implementing these new recommendations in the hope that through quantitative analysis of the deficiency we would be able to identify areas of weakness. ⋯ VTE prophylaxis is underutilized at AUBMC, a tertiary care teaching hospital in the Middle East. Critical care patients were being acceptably anti-coagulated, whereas cancer patients are doing the worst.