Clinical decision support improves use of blood clot prevention measures

Providers who had access to a clinical decision support tool used measures to prevent blood clotting in more than 80% of hospital inpatient stays and almost 14% of discharges, a study found. Funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Advances, the study found clinicians without the clinical decision support tool used the measures to prevent blood clotting in less than 73% of inpatient stays and fewer than 3% of discharges. Patients who were cared for at hospitals that did not use the clinical decision support tool were significantly more likely to experience blood clots compared with patients who received care at hospitals using the clinical support tool. (AHRQ News article, 11/14/23)