Effectiveness of Interventions for Hospital Medical Thromboprophylaxis: a Bicentric Swiss Quality-improvement Study (TPX-ENHANCE)

Marc Blondon

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Venous Thromboembolism

Treatments: Other: Educative sessions; Other: Comprehensive electronic tool in the electronic medical chart; Other: Pocket card

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05306821

2019-01976

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective is to evaluate and compare the short-term and medicum-term effectiveness of 2 types of interventions in 2 different hospitals to improve the adequacy of hospital thromboprophylaxis among acute medical inpatients.

Enrollment: 600 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• acute medical inpatients hospitalized at the Geneva University Hospitals or the Lugano Regional Hospitals

Exclusion criteria

• patients already on therapeutic anticoagulation
• patients with an estimated life expectancy of <3 months
• pregnancy
• patients hospitalized for COVID-19

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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600 participants in 2 patient groups

Implementation of an electronic tool for risk stratification and thromboprophylaxis prescription

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Comprehensive electronic tool in the electronic medical chart

Other: Educative sessions

Implementation of educative sessions and pocket cards for thromboprophylaxis

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Pocket card

Other: Educative sessions