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Comprehensive Initiative to Decrease Trauma Venous Thromboembolism

Published in Journal of Trauma Nursing • Jul 1, 2021
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Authors:
Tracy J. Johns
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Josephine Fabico-Dulin
,
Anne Montgomery

Abstract

Background: Our trauma center was a high outlier for pulmonary embolism on a 2017 American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) report. The odds ratio for developing a pulmonary embolus was 1.76 and was in the 10th decile (worst results). Of the patients who received chemopr...

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