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How
to Use

First
Steps

Best
Practices
Why You Should Act

Guidelines

Literature Review

Know Patients' Risk for VTE

Know Options for Preventing VTE

Draft a VTE Protocol
Analyze
Care Delivery
Needs/Resource Assessment

Qualitative Analysis

Quantitative Analysis
Track
Performance
Key Metric # 1

Key Metric #2

Data Collection

Data Reporting Using Run Charts

Clarify Aims

Balancing Measures
Reliable
Interventions
The VTE Protocol

Key Principles for Effective Interventions

Layering Interventions
Continue
to Improve
Plan-Do-Study-Act

Spread Improvement
Education
Resources
Literature Review

Teaching and Learning Slide Sets

Bedside Teaching

Patient Education

Core Competencies

CME / CE

Awareness Campaigns

Additional VTE Resources
Clinical
Tools
Hospital Admission

Ordersets / Protocols

Risk Assessment

Team Communications

Other Tools
QI
Basics
QI Primer

QI Web Resources

Core Competencies

QI Web Resources

Web Resources to Enhance Working Familiarity with Key QI Tools

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has an excellent web site that reviews a model for improvement, as well as providing tools that you can actually download. While registration is needed to download the tools, this is a quick and free resource.
Find out more information on QI tools.

The American Society for Quality has an excellent, user-friendly site with overviews of the major quality improvement tools. Explore this section with particular attention to run charts, SPC charts, process flow diagrams, and FMEA.
Find out more information about the sections on tools.

Intermountain Healthcare is a recognized leader in the performance improvement field, and integrating performance improvement with all of their key clinical endeavors. The Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research, led by Dr. Brent James, has a wealth of presentations and other information available at no charge.
Find out more information about Intermountain Healthcare.

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement is a non-profit independent site dedicated to promoting collaborative quality improvement, based out of Minnesota and some surrounding states.
Find out more information about their quality improvement initiatives.

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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