Press Release
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Contact: CDC Media Relations
(404) 639-3286
CDC challenge: Find better ways to prevent healthcare-associated blood clots
To identify best practices and to increase use of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated blood clots, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today launched a challenge designed to find, honor and recognize hospitals, multi-hospital systems, hospital networks, and managed care organizations that have implemented innovative and effective prevention strategies or interventions.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), blood clots occurring as deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, or both, is an important and growing public health concern. They affect as many as 900,000 Americans each year, leading to approximately 100,000 premature deaths per year. About half of all blood clots happen after a recent hospital stay or surgery. In patients with cancer, blood clots are a leading cause of death after the cancer itself.
Preventing healthcare-associated venous thromboembolism (HA-VTE) is a national hospital safety priority. Some estimates show that as many as 70 percent of HA-VTEs are preventable, yet fewer than half of hospital patients receive appropriate prevention including the information they need and items such as anticoagulants and compression devices in accordance with accepted evidence-based guidelines.
“Doctors and nurses in hospitals and other healthcare settings can save lives by implementing the best practices discovered through this challenge,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “Tell us about what you are doing and what’s helping prevent blood clots, so we can advance science and save lives together.”
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