Electronic Alerts to Prevent Venous Thromboembolism among Hospitalized Patients
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- 10 March 2005
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 352 (10), 969-977
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa041533
Abstract
Prophylaxis against deep-vein thrombosis in hospitalized patients remains underused. We hypothesized that the use of a computer-alert program to encourage prophylaxis might reduce the frequency of deep-vein thrombosis among high-risk hospitalized patients.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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