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Exchange Information Implementation Guide Professional Development Resource Room Project Team Main Resource Room Home Venous Thromboembolism Resource Room

CME

Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Medical Patients

On completion of this CME offering, participants will be able to:

  • Perform risk stratification for the development of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the hospital setting
  • Describe evidence-based prophylactic strategies to prevent VTE in high-risk medical patients
  • Initiate a quality improvement project to address underutilization of preventative measures aimed at predictable complications of illness

Credit hrs: 1.0
Certification: ACCME
Price: FREE
Release date: 2006-03-27
Valid through: 2007-03-27
Although the option to apply for CME credit has expired, the teaching points in this module continue to provide value.

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Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Surgical Patients

Upon completion of this CME offering, participants will be able to:

  • Perform risk stratification for the development of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients undergoing surgical procedures
  • Apply evidence-based prophylactic strategies to prevent VTE in patients undergoing surgical procedures, including special populations
  • Initiate a quality improvement project to address underutilization of VTE prophylaxis to reduce the incidence of predictable complications of illness

Credit hrs: 1.0
Certification: ACCME
Price: FREE
Release date: 2006-08-17
Valid through: 2007-08-17
Although the option to apply for CME credit has expired, the teaching points in this module continue to provide value.

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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
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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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