Journal Supplement Focuses on Tools and Methods for Preventing Blood Clots

A new Journal of Hospital Medicine supplement, “Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism: Lessons from the Field,” includes articles that demonstrate the benefit of hospitalwide reminders and alerts used to evaluate risks for blood clots and ensure all people at risk receive effective preventive measures. The supplement, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, includes an editorial co-authored by two experts from AHRQ’s Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, center Director P. Jeffrey Brady, M.D., M.P.H., and Medical Officer Barbara Bartman, M.D., M.P.H. Articles in the supplement show that several hospitals were able to prevent venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) by engaging teams of health care experts, informing patients and providers about the need for and benefits of VTE prevention, and using technology (such as electronic risk assessment and clinical decision support tools and alerts) to ensure all patients were assessed for their VTE risk and bleeding. AHRQ offers a toolkit that health care providers can use to ensure they are following best practices in VTE prevention.

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Supplement: Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism: Lessons from the Field

December 2016

Volume 11, Issue Supplement S2

Pages S1–S43

Issue Information – Masthead
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  Issue Information – Masthead (page S1)
  Version of Record online: 7 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2667
Issue Information – Table of Content
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  Issue Information – Table of Content (pages S2–S3)
  Version of Record online: 7 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2668
Supplement
1. Publication of this supplement is made possible by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through contract 200-2015-F-63599 as part of the 2015 Healthcare Associated Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Challenge using the HHS Competes Strategic Sourcing vehicle HHSP233201400033B, BPA Category # 2: IDEATION.
  
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  Strategies and partnerships toward prevention of Healthcare-Associated Venous Thromboembolism (pages S5–S7)
  Michele G. Beckman, Karon Abe, Kelly Barnes, Barbara Bartman, P. Jeffrey Brady and W. Craig Hooper
  
  Version of Record online: 7 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2659
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  The Johns Hopkins Venous Thromboembolism Collaborative: Multidisciplinary team approach to achieve perfect prophylaxis (pages S8–S14)
  Michael B. Streiff, Brandyn D. Lau, Deborah B. Hobson, Peggy S. Kraus, Kenneth M. Shermock, Dauryne L. Shaffer, Victor O. Popoola, Jonathan K. Aboagye, Norma A. Farrow, Paula J. Horn, Hasan M. Shihab, Peter J. Pronovost and Elliott R. Haut
  
  Version of Record online: 7 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2657
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  Preventing acute care–associated venous thromboembolism in adult and pediatric patients across a large healthcare system (pages S15–S21)
  Timothy I. Morgenthaler and Vilmarie Rodriguez
  
  Version of Record online: 7 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2662
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  Reducing the incidence of hospital-associated venous thromboembolism within a network of academic hospitals: Findings from five University of California medical centers (pages S22–S28)
  Ian H. Jenkins, Richard H. White, Alpesh N. Amin, Nasim Afsarmanesh, Andrew D. Auerbach, Raman Khanna and Gregory A. Maynard
  
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  Evaluation of an institutional project to improve venous thromboembolism prevention (pages S29–S37)
  Christina A. Minami, Anthony D. Yang, Mila Ju, Eckford Culver, Kathryn Seifert, Lindsey Kreutzer, Terri Halverson, Kevin J. O'Leary and Karl Y. Bilimoria
  
  Version of Record online: 7 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2663
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  Preventing hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism: Improving patient safety with interdisciplinary teamwork, quality improvement analytics, and data transparency (pages S38–S43)
  Anneliese M. Schleyer, Ellen Robinson, Roxana Dumitru, Mark Taylor, Kimberly Hayes, Ronald Pergamit, Daphne M. Beingessner, Mark C. Zaros and Joseph Cuschieri
  
  Version of Record online: 7 DEC 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2664