VTE – Final April 2012
Category
Core
Core
Core
Core
Core
Title
Source
Description
“Preventing Hospital-Acquired
Venous Thromboembolism: A
Guide for Effective Quality
Improvement” (U.S.
Department of Health &
Human Services, Agency for
Healthcare Research and
Quality [AHRQ])
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/vtguide/
“Deep Vein
Thrombosis/Pulmonary
Embolism (DVT/PE)” (U.S.
Department of Health &
Human Services, Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention [CDC])
“Management of Massive and
Submassive Pulmonary
Embolism, Iliofemoral Deep
Vein Thrombosis, and Chronic
Thromboembolic Pulmonary
Hypertension” (Circulation,
American Heart Association
[AHA])
“ACCP Evidence-Based Clinical
Practice Guidelines and
Consensus Statements”
(Chest, American College of
Chest Physicians)
Prevention and Management
of Venous Thromboembolism:
A National Clinical Guideline
(Scottish Intercollegiate
Guidelines Network)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/facts.html
Pharmacologic methods to prevent venous
thromboembolism are safe, effective, cost-effective, and
advocated by authoritative guidelines, yet large prospective
studies continue to demonstrate that these preventive
methods are significantly underused. Based on quality
improvement initiatives undertaken at the University of
California, San Diego Medical Center, and Emory University
Hospitals, this guide helps quality improvement practitioners
to improve prevention of one of the most important
problems facing hospitalized patients: hospital-acquired
venous thromboembolism.
CDC site includes facts, complications, risks, and treatment
options for DVT/PE.
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/123/16/1788.full.pdf
Management recommendations for massive and submassive
pulmonary embolism, iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis, and
chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension are
addressed in this statement.
http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/site/misc/Guidelines_CS.x
html
Site includes links to ACCP evidence-based clinical practice
guidelines and consensus statements.
http://www.sign.ac.uk/pdf/sign122.pdf
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) VTE
prevention and management guidelines.
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Category
Core
Title
Source
Description
“Venous Thromboembolism
(VTE)” (Hospitals in Pursuit of
Excellence)
Venous Thromboembolism
Prevention: Getting Started Kit
(Safer Healthcare Now!)
http://www.hpoe.org/topic-areas/vte.shtml
Site includes links to various hospital case studies.
http://www.saferhealthcarenow.ca/EN/Interventions/vte/D
ocuments/VTE%20Getting%20Started%20Kit.pdf
“Blood Clot Education for
Patients & Professionals”
(National Blood Clot Alliance:
Stop the Clot®)
“Map of Medicine®: Venous
Thromboembolism (VTE) Risk
Assessment (All Patients)”
(National Health Service
[NHS])
“NICE Pathways: Venous
Thromboembolism Overview”
(NHS, National Institute for
Health and Clinical Excellence
[NICE])
Preventing Hospital-Acquired
Venous Thromboembolism: A
Guide for Effective Quality
Improvement (Society of
Hospital Medicine)
“Venous Thromboembolism
Prevention Resource Centre”
(Australian Commission on
Safety and Quality in Health
Care)
“Learn about Venous Disease”
(Vascular Disease Foundation:
Venous Disease Coalition)
“Venous Thromboembolism
(VTE) Prevention in the
http://www.stoptheclot.org/
This Getting Started Kit (GSK) has been written to help
engage your interprofessional/interdisciplinary teams in a
dynamic approach for improving quality and safety while
providing a basis for getting started. The VTE GSK represents
the most current evidence, knowledge, and practice, as of
the date of publication, and includes what has been learned
since the first kits were released in 2008.
Link to an organization that is dedicated to DVT/PE
prevention. It includes blood clot education for patients and
professionals, links to news articles, and various events.
Core
Enhanced
HPH
HPH
HPH
HPH
Supporting
Supporting
http://healthguides.mapofmedicine.com/choices/mapopen/venous_thromboembolism_vte_risk_assessment_and
_prophylaxis1.html
Site includes a VTE risk assessment algorithm.
http://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/venousthromboembolism
NICE Pathways is an interactive tool for health and social
care professionals, providing fast access to NICE guidance
and associated products for VTE prevention.
http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/AM/Template.cfm?Sectio
n=Home&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=1
7773
Site includes information from the Society of Hospital
Medicine on effective quality improvement techniques for
VTE prevention.
http://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/internet/safety/publish
ing.nsf/Content/vte-prevention
Site includes resources and tools from the Australian
Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare for VTE.
http://www.venousdiseasecoalition.org/
Organization promotes public and health professional
awareness of venous disease. Site includes information on
the disease, membership, resources, and events.
Site includes a link to Dr. Greg Maynard’s slide presentation
on VTE prevention.
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/vtepresentation/maynardtxt.htm
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Category
Title
Source
Description
Hospital” (AHRQ)
Supporting
Supporting
Prevention and Treatment of
Venous Thromboembolism
(VTE) in Obstetrics (Society of
Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists of Canada)
Venous Thromboembolism
(VTE) Prophylaxis in Pregnancy
and the Puerperium
(Queensland Government)
http://www.sogc.org/guidelines/public/95E-CPGSeptember2000.pdf
A 2000 clinical practice guideline reviewed and approved by
the Maternal Fetal Medicine Committee and the Council of
the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
http://www.health.qld.gov.au/qcg/documents/g_vte5-1.pdf
Queensland Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guideline
prepared to promote and facilitate standardization and
consistency of practice using a multidisciplinary approach.
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