Using Process Measures to Improve Patient Safety Practices for PE

The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) has developed this tool kit as a primary resource for you as you embark on your continuous quality improvement efforts, focusing on the implementation of a patient safety quality improvement program. This tool kit contains material that will assist an interdisciplinary team of health care providers in the development and implementation of their patient safety quality improvement program. It also offers suggested methods to continuously assess and revise your processes to provide patients with optimal care.

Some items in the tool kit are required elements for participation in the "Using Process Measures to Improve Patient Safety Practices for PE" project. Such items will be labeled as "required", while others will be labeled as "strongly suggested" or "suggested". All of the materials in this tool kit can be replicated and will need to be personalized for your own facility's use. We encourage you to share the information with all staff members of your facility.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Project Overview

• Project Overview

Section 2: Consensus Guidelines

• SMH Clinical Practice Guideline

Section 3: Professional Education

• Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in the Hospitalized Medical Patient by Anthony P. Pietropaoli, MD

Section 4: Project Data Components

• Thromboembolism Process Measures Data Collection Tool
• Data Dictionary for Thromboembolism Process Measures Data Collection Tool

Section 5: Quality Improvement Tools

• Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism (DVT-PE) - Poster
• Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism (DVT-PE) -Pocket Card
• Patient Safety Alert - DVT-PE
• DVT-PE Screen Prints
• DVT-PE Risk & Prophylaxis
• Snapshot Evaluation Summary Data Collection Tool
• Surgical Checklist

Section 6: Bibliography

• Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism - The Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy, William H. Geerts, MD, FCCP; Graham F. Pineo, MD; John A. Heit, MD; David Bergqvist, MD, PhD; Michael R. Lassen, MD; Clifford W. Colwell, MD; and Joel G. Ray, MD, MSc