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Balancing Measures
Balancing Measures
The team now has an aim statement for two key performance metrics and is ready to plan changes to the system. But both patients and hospitals are complex systems. What if the improvement changes lead to unintended consequences for either patients or the hospital? How will the team know?
Consider monitoring potential areas of concern to detect any detrimental effects of improvement changes. These additional metrics are called “balancing measures.”
For example, as balancing measures the team may decide to track the incidence of heparin induced thrombocytopenia, or bleeding episodes, or the cost of using more pharmacologic prophylaxis.
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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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