Venous Thromboembolism
The NYSPFP Initiative to Reduce Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) is designed to assist hospitals to implement standardized processes for the adoption of best practices to prevent VTE.
Goal:
To reduce the number of VTE events by 20%.
Approach:
NYSPFP’s approach to achieving performance excellence is embedded in a dynamic set of guiding principles designed to foster a unit-based safety culture of continuous quality improvement. The following operationalizes the NYSPFP Guiding Principles to innovate, engage, integrate, and hardwire best practices, including for the reduction of VTE events.
Hospital participants also receive comparative data analyses to inform their improvement efforts. Click on the following link to access the NYSPFP data portal for measure definitions and comparative analyses.