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Lead
The Cleveland Clinic
Specific Aim:
Assess the effects of a VTE risk calculator embedded in the admission order set vs. usual care on physician behavior and patient outcomes in a randomized trial
Research Strategy:
Utilizing a Step-Wedge design, this randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted at 10 Cleveland Clinic hospitals in efforts to assess the effects of a VTE (venous thromboembolism) risk calculator embedded in the admission order set vs. usual care on physician behavior and patient outcomes. Hospitals will be randomized to display the risk calculator to physicians admitting patients or to the usual order set that contains only a description of VTE risk factors. The risk calculator will produce a predicted risk of VTE together with a recommendation regarding the use of prophylaxis for an individual patient. Physicians will be free to ignore the calculator or override its results if they so choose.
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
All adult patients (age ≥18 years) admitted to a medical service, including intensive care units, between September 1, 2017 and August 31, 2018 will be eligible.
You may not be if
patients admitted with a terminal condition who are receiving comfort care only
Surgical patients who are admitted to the medical service temporarily (e.g. hip fracture)
