Online CME

VTE Guidelines and Measures: Achieving Best Practices Across the Spectrum of Patient Populations

This CME Module is Sponsored by the University of Cincinnati and produced by North American Center for Continuing Medical Education, LLC.

Upon completing this activity, participants should be able to:

• Describe the necessity for and potential impact of timely venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prophylaxis as-needed for hospitalized patients
• Institute clinical practices to enhance documentation of patient assessment for VTE risk and subsequent prophylaxis
• Implement protocols for VTE management, including appropriate anticoagulation overlap and treatment monitoring
• Incorporate new Joint Commission/National Quality Forum measures and American College of Chest Physicians guidelines into clinical practice to optimize outcomes

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Thrombosis Clinic

Offers hospitalists free CME about the latest approaches in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of thrombosis – a leading cause of preventable hospital deaths.

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VTE Quality Measures: Advances in Hospital-Based Prevention and Care

This CME is jointly sponsored by the University of Cincinnati and Princeton CME. Upon completion you will be able to:

• Describe the burden of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the hospital and the potential impact of more widespread risk stratification and prophylaxis, particularly among medical patients
• List the Joint Commission/National Quality Forum (NQF) National Consensus Standards in development for the prevention and care of VTE
• Summarize the American College of Chest Physicians guidelines for the prevention and treatment of VTE
• Define the available antithrombin therapies and their benefits and limitations
• Implement the latest guidelines and recommendations to ensure compliance to the new Joint Commission/NQF standards for VTE prevention and care