Effectiveness of Interventions for Hospital Medical Thromboprophylaxis: a Bicentric Swiss Quality-improvement Study

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Venous Thromboembolism

• Registration Number: NCT05306821
• Lead Sponsor: Marc Blondon

Brief Summary

The primary objective is to evaluate and compare the short-term and medicum-term effectiveness of 2 types of interventions in 2 different hospitals to improve the adequacy of hospital thromboprophylaxis among acute medical inpatients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-09-01
• Study First Submitted: 2022-02-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-03-22
• Study First Posted: 2022-04-01
• Status Verified: 2023-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-05-08
• Last Update Posted: 2023-05-10
• Primary Completion: 2024-12-31
• Study Completion: 2024-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 600

Inclusion Criteria

• acute medical inpatients hospitalized at the Geneva University Hospitals or the Lugano Regional Hospitals

Exclusion Criteria

• patients already on therapeutic anticoagulation
• patients with an estimated life expectancy of <3 months
• pregnancy
• patients hospitalized for COVID-19

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of patients with an adequate thromboprophylaxis	90 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Incidence of major bleeding	90 days
Incidence of venous thromboembolism	90 days

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Geneva University Hospitals; 🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland

Ospedale Regionale di Lugano; 🇨🇭 Lugano, Switzerland