Compliance with current VTE prophylaxis guidelines and risk factors linked to complications of VTE prophylaxis in medical inpatients: a prospective cohort study in a Spanish internal medicine department.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the degree of compliance with the current guidelines regarding venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in medical patients during admission and to identify risk factors linked to complications of VTE prophylaxis. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study. SETTING:The Internal Medicine Department of the University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela (tertiary referral hospital). PARTICIPANTS:A total of 396 hospitalised, elderly patients who did not undergo surgery and had no active or previous oral anticoagulation or low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) treatment (during the previous year) and who received VTE prophylaxis during admission. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES:The degree of compliance with the current guidelines was estimated by calculating PADOVA and IMPROVE i

SUBMITTER: Novo-Veleiro I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5961602 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature