Resumen de The Need to Revisit VTE Quality Measures

Christine V. Kinnie, Cindy Barnard, Karl Y. Bilimoria

• Objectives To prospectively determine the incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) following major head and neck surgery. At the midpoint of enrollment, an interim analysis was performed to determine if it was ethical to continue this study as an observational study without routine anticoagulation.

  Design Prospective, observational cohort study.

  Setting Academic surgical center.

  Patients The interim analysis comprised 47 subjects.