Implementation Guide

Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Implementation Guide

The VTE Implementation Guide entitled Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous-Thromboembolism, A Guide for Effective Quality Improvement, Version 3.3, is in PDF format and requires Adobe Reader. If you do not have Adobe Reader installed on your computer you can download it from the Adobe website.

Download the VTE Implementation Guide*

For a brief profile of the key steps outlined in the Implementation Guide, download and print the VTE Prevention Snapshot.

Download the VTE Implementation Guide Snapshot

*Please note: Due to the large file size of this document, extended download times may be experienced on some computers.

SHM is dedicated to the continuous improvement of the products and services that we offer. This Implementation Guide continues to be a work in progress; we highly encourage and welcome constructive criticism and feedback via email to vte@hospitalmedicine.org.

When citing this document, the Society of Hospital Medicine requests that the following citation format be used: Stein, J, Maynard G. Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous-Thromboembolism, A Guide for Effective Quality Improvement, Version 3.3. Society of Hospital Medicine website, Venous Thromboembolism Quality Improvement Resource Room http://www.hospitalmedicine.org accessed month/day/year.

Acknowledgements: The authors express sincerest gratitude to the hospital medicine programs at the following institutions for contributing past or current versions of order sets: Caritas Norwood Hospital, Carilion Health System, Idaho State University, Presbyterian Healthcare, and the University of California San Francisco.

For manuscript review, we also are deeply indebted to Kathleen Kerr, Tina Budnitz, and the members of the Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committee of the Society of Hospital Medicine.