Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Medical and Surgical ICUs in a Single University Hospital

NCT ID: NCT01851239

Last Updated: 2014-05-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 1000 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2013-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2014-04-30

Brief Summary

Venous thromboembolism(VTE) is the third most common cardiovascular complication among hospitalized patients, and can even cause death. VTE often occurs in intensive care patients and there had been many efforts to prevent such complication. The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) had published evidence-based clinical practice guideline for VTE prophylaxis.

This study focuses on how VTE prophylaxis is being performed in both medical and surgical ICUs in a single University hospital, and sees the differences in such prophylactic patterns.

Conditions

Venous Thromboembolism

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

medical ICU inpatients

No interventions assigned to this group

surgical ICU inpatients

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• ICU admitted patients

Exclusion Criteria

• patients under 20 years old

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 90 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Yonsei University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine

Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Countries

South Korea

Other Identifiers

1-2013-0002

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id