- Web-based/EHR predictive algorithms that elicit specific data such as but not limited to vital signs (BP, Temp, HR, RR, and SpO2) lab values, nurses notes, and event reports.
- The EHR can be a key component of a VTE prevention program by enabling computerized decision support to ensure that every patient has a valid VTE prevention plan at all times during their hospitalization.\cite{Morrison}\cite{King}
Metrics
Process measures such as rates of VTE risk assessment and appropriate thromboprophylaxis may be measured however defining a robust, reproducible and meaningful approach to performance monitoring remains a challenge to healthcare systems. Identifying real world outcomes such as hospital-associated VTE case numbers and mortality is even more of a challenge, with well documented coding difficulties as well as ascertainment bias. The Patient Safety Movement offers known measurement specifications to hospitals looking to improve their metrics.