Incidence of Hospital Acquired Thrombosis (HAT) in a tertiary care hospital

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dc.contributor.authorKhan, Muhammad Irfan
dc.contributor.authorO'Leary, C.
dc.contributor.authorSilvari, V.
dc.contributor.authorO'Brien, A.
dc.contributor.authorDuggan, C.
dc.contributor.authorO'Shea, S.
dc.contributor.funderIrish Haemostasis Research Foundation Limited
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-15T11:42:17Z
dc.date.available2019-02-15T11:42:17Z
dc.date.issued2017-04
dc.date.updated2019-02-15T11:36:26Z
dc.description.abstractVenous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. In spite of guidelines, VTE prophylaxis continues to be underutilised, and hospital acquired thrombosis (HAT) continues to be a problem. This study was conducted to estimate the incidence of HAT in a tertiary referral centre and to examine whether VTE risk assessment and thromboprophylaxis (TP) were implemented. Patients 18 years and above, with a radiologically-confirmed acute VTE during the study period of 15 weeks were included. Acute VTE was diagnosed in 100 patients and HAT was diagnosed in 48. There were 12,024 admissions over the study period, therefore the incidence of HAT was 0.4%. TP was prescribed in only 35% of patients, and 65% did not receive any or appropriate TP. Hospitals without active implementation of a formal risk assessment tool and TP policy are likely to continue to have increased incidence of HAT.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid542
dc.identifier.citationKhan, M. I., O'Leary, C., Silvari, V., O'Brien, A., Duggan, C. and O'Shea, S. (2017) 'Incidence of Hospital Acquired Thrombosis (HAT) in a tertiary care hospital', Irish Medical Journal, 110(4), 542. Available at: http://imj.ie/incidence-of-hospital-acquired-thrombosis-hat-in-a-tertiary-care-hospital/ (Accessed: 15 February 2019)en
dc.identifier.issn0332-3102
dc.identifier.issued4en
dc.identifier.journaltitleIrish Medical Journalen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7505
dc.identifier.volume110en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIrish Medical Organisationen
dc.relation.urihttp://imj.ie/incidence-of-hospital-acquired-thrombosis-hat-in-a-tertiary-care-hospital/
dc.rights© 2017, Irish Medical Organisation. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectVenous thromboembolismen
dc.subjectVTE risk assessmenten
dc.subjectThromboprophylaxisen
dc.titleIncidence of Hospital Acquired Thrombosis (HAT) in a tertiary care hospitalen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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