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1. Appendix C: VTE Measurement and Tracking | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2016 - If patient is at moderate or high risk and is not receiving anticoagulant prophylaxis: Does patient have … Bleeding Risk Factors and Contraindications to Anticoagulant Prophylaxis Active bleeding. … Blue represents patients on combination mechanical and anticoagulant prophylaxis, while gray represents … Customize the list of anticoagulants and doses as required, based on your formulary, and whether you … Which anticoagulants to include may vary by protocol and the underlying focus of the improvement team

2. Appendix B: Risk Assessment Models, Protocols, and Order Sets | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2022 - Variation: Add in start time for anticoagulant prophylaxis post op. … Balances default to prophylaxis with explicit efforts to minimize anticoagulant prophylaxis for those … Concurrent use of anticoagulants known to increase the risk of bleeding (such as warfarin with international … Anticoagulant prophylaxis posed as preferred prophylaxis in cases at risk for VTE and no anticoagulant … Anticoagulant prophylaxis is preferred prophylaxis in cases at risk for VTE and no anticoagulant contraindication

3. Chapter 6. Track Performance with Metrics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2016 - attributable to anticoagulant prophylaxis. … that justifies using alternatives to anticoagulant prophylaxis? … In its simplest version, the proactive review ends if either anticoagulant or mechanical prophylaxis … In addition, not everyone with HA-VTE will be readmitted; newer oral anticoagulants and low-molecular-weight … limits how aggressively anticoagulant prophylaxis can be used.

4. Chapter 5. Implement the VTE Prevention Protocol | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2022 - Age, body mass index, creatinine clearance, already prescribed antiplatelet or anticoagulant agents, … a given LMWH or oral anticoagulant. … prophylaxis. … prophylaxis. … Opting out of anticoagulant prophylaxis for moderate- or high-risk patients led to capture of anticoagulant

5. Chapter 7. Layering Interventions and Moving Toward Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2016 - orders for each patient on the ward as "green" (therapeutic or prophylactic anticoagulant ordered), … to anticoagulants at a prophylactic level. … The patient in 601B has SCDs and a documented lab contraindication to anticoagulant. … level, impaired mobility, and no contraindication for anticoagulant captured in the laboratory. … Finally, potential over-prophylaxis is identified by "green" patients on anticoagulant who are ambulating

6. Chapter 4. Choose the Model To Assess VTE and Bleeding Risk | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2022 - Bleeding risk tools and guidance for the timing of administering anticoagulant prophylaxis around surgical … Provide decision support regarding those who would benefit from combination mechanical and anticoagulant … Patients are targeted for interventions to prevent VTE (anticoagulant or mechanical prophylaxis and efforts … This approach has an automatic default of anticoagulant prophylaxis and assumes the great majority of … Specific options for anticoagulant choices, dosing, and timing are presented in the actual order sets

7. Appendix A: Tools and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   July 01, 2018 - Meta-analysis: anticoagulant prophylaxis to prevent symptomatic venous thromboembolism in hospitalized … Convincing trials of anticoagulant prophylaxis against symptomatic UE DVT are currently lacking, but … a recent meta-analysis found that anticoagulant prophylaxis is effective for preventing all CVC-related … DVT, and it seems likely that anticoagulant prophylaxis reduces symptomatic UE DVT to some extent. … In any case, most inpatients with a CVC warrant anticoagulant prophylaxis based on cumulative risk factors

8. Chapter 3. Outline the Evidence and Identify Best Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   February 01, 2016 - (Nonsurgical) Acutely ill hospitalized patients at risk for thrombosis are likely candidates for anticoagulant … (preferably with IPCD) and anticoagulant prophylaxis is suggested for these high-risk patients. … In AT8 and other guidelines, anticoagulant prophylaxis is preferred over mechanical prophylaxis. 6,13 … arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty, LMWH is favored by AT9. 4 For hip fracture surgery, the anticoagulant … of anticoagulants in different situations, further complicate the issues.

9. Appendix B: Risk Assessment Models, Protocols, and Order Sets (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2020 - spinal lesion at high risk of bleeding, recent major operation at high risk for bleeding, systemic anticoagulant … prophylaxis. … Variation: For scores of 3–4, offer only anticoagulant, or only IPC, depending on the population the … prophylaxis. … prophylaxis.

10. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 16. Venous Thromboembolism (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2020 - Pharmacologic prophylaxis is available via a number of different anticoagulant and antiplatelet drugs … There are two different types of pharmacologic agents available for VTE prophylaxis—anticoagulants and … drugs are associated with a higher incidence of bleeding than prophylaxis agents.4 The review’s key … insufficient evidence to draw conclusion regarding whether aspirin is more or less effective than anticoagulation … agents.

11. Preface | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2016 - practices, the rates are much higher. 10-12 When patients survive the VTE event and acute course of anticoagulant … Patients and their families relay powerful personal stories related to loss of function, difficulty with anticoagulant … while avoiding over-prophylaxis of those who are not. … Evidence-based protocols that standardize VTE risk assessment and prophylaxis. … (50-60 percent) and pharmacologic prophylaxis (10-20 percent of doses commonly not delivered).

12. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2016 - While VTE sometimes occurs despite the best available prophylaxis, there are many lost opportunities … to optimize prophylaxis and reduce VTE risk factors in virtually every hospital. … harms, costs, and discomfort associated with prophylactic methods; for some inpatients, the risk of anticoagulant … prophylaxis may outweigh the risk of HA-VTE. … rates, and other parameters (e.g., adherence to prescribed prophylaxis).

13. Chapter 2. Analyze Care Delivery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2016 - the role of new anticoagulants in prophylaxis continues to evolve. … For example, simply listing options for prophylaxis does not provide adequate guidance. … Prophylaxis gets missed or changed on transfer to a perioperative setting. … Correct prophylaxis is ordered but not administered (or the patient refuses treatment). … Prophylaxis is stopped at discharge even though the patient has indications for extended duration prophylaxis

14. Making Healthcare Safer III Patient Safety Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2020 - Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae  ( PDF , 1.4 MB) Contact Precautions Harms Due to Anticoagulants … Intervention TCM: Transitional Care Model Venous Thromboembolism ( PDF , 1.4 MB) Postsurgical Prophylaxis

15. UChicago Medicine Reduces Perioperative Venous Thromboembolism with AHRQ's Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - The aims of the taskforce were to strengthen established chemical and mechanical prophylaxis and ambulation … concluded that the aims of the taskforce would be to strengthen established chemical and mechanical prophylaxis

16. Operating Room Briefing and Debriefing Audit Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 -     Airway risk       Access issues       Bleeding concerns (e.g., anticoagulant …       Allergies       Glycemic control       Deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis

17. Auditing Your Briefings and Debriefings Process: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Bleeding concerns (e.g., anticoagulant use). Blood availability. Allergies. … Deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis. Warmers. Lab/radiology review. … Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis  - 100% Yes. Glycemic control - 40% Yes. … Anticoagulant use - 10% Yes. Access issues - 20% Yes. Airway risk - 20% Yes.

18. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 20, 2016 - Selection Appropriate use of prophylaxis for VTE in patients at risk is the number one strategy … o Focus on reaching VTE prophylaxis targets and reporting to key medical staff committees. … o Draft or adopt evidence-based protocols that standardize VTE risk assessment and prophylaxis.6 … Selection • Prompt providers to order VTE prophylaxis when completing admission or transfer orders … .3 • Determine contraindications to pharmacologic prophylaxis and deliver decision support to the

19. Appendix D. Ambulatory Surgery Center Checklist Template - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2017 - Warmer in place |___| Risk of venous thromboembolism             - Compression boots and/or anticoagulants … Surgical procedure to be performed matches the consent |___| Surgical site |___| Has antibiotic prophylaxis

20. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)
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    January 01, 2009 - operation longer than 1 hour · Warmer in place · Risk of venous thromboembolism · Compression boots and/or anticoagulants … s name · Surgical procedure to be performed matches the consent · Surgical site · Has antibiotic prophylaxis