Venous Thromboembolism Quality Measures Fail to Accurately Measure Quality

Evaluation of surveillance bias and the validity of the venous thromboembolism quality measure.

IMPORTANCE Postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) rates are widely reported quality metrics soon to be used in pay-for-performance programs. Surveillance bias occurs when some clinicians use imaging studies to detect VTE more frequently than other clinicians. Because they look more, they find more VTE events, paradoxically worsening their hospital's VTE quality measure performance. A survei...

Venous Thromboembolism Following Travel

International travel has become increasingly common and accessible, hence, about two billion passengers undertake international and domestic air travel each year. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious public health disorder which may occur following prolonged travel, especially after air travel. A direct relation between VTE development and prolonged travels has been documented, while some ...

Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis: quality, location (hospital vs. home), and duration.

Thromb Haemost 2009; 102: 1–2 Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis for hospitalised patients at risk for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE) has been underutilised. Consequently, VTE has been identified as the number one cause of preventable death among hospitalised patients. Deaths and non-fatal VTE caused by failure to prophylax occur not only in the hospital but conti...

High density Lipoprotein; What to Measure: Quality or Quantity?

Instrumentation to Measure Pork Quality

Cannon et al. (1995) describe pork “quality” as being associated with such characteristics as freshness, wholesomeness, grade, color (appearance), eating satisfaction and processing attributes (functionality). Grandin (1994) reported that ultimate pork quality is the responsibility given 50% to the producer and 50% to the packer. The producer is responsible for selection of swine genotypes that...