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Implementation Guide

Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Implementation Guide

The VTE Implementation Guide entitled Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous-Thromboembolism, A Guide for Effective Quality Improvement, Version 3.0, 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 request that the following citation format be used: Stein, J, Maynard G. Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous-Thromboembolism, A Guide for Effective Quality Improvement, Version 3.0. Society of Hospital Medicine website, Venous Thromboembolism Quality Improvement Resource Room http://www.hospitalmedicine.org accessed month/day/year.

Venous Thromboembolism Resource Room Project Team
This resource room is sponsored in part by an unrestricted educational grant from Sanofi Aventis

Disclaimer
The Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Resource Room is an online resource for visitors to the Society of Hospital Medicine’s website. All content and links have been reviewed by the VTE Resource Room Project Team, however the Society of Hospital Medicine does not exercise any editorial control over content associated with the external links that have been made available via this website.

The contributions of Dr. Maynard and his UCSD collaborators in the development of the SHM VTE Prevention Resource Room and the VTE Prevention Implementation Guide were supported by grant number 1U18HS015826-01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The contents of this product are solely the responsibility of Dr. Maynard and the SHM VTE Resource Room team, and do not necessarily represent the official view of or imply endorsement by AHRQ or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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