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- Title
Global practice variation in pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis for general and gynaecological surgery: systematic review.
- Authors
Pourjamal, Negar; Lavikainen, Lauri I; Halme, Alex L E; Cartwright, Rufus; Ahopelto, Kaisa; Guyatt, Gordon H; Tikkinen, Kari A O
- Abstract
Studies in cancer and obesity surgery consistently reported high rates of use of pharmacological prophylaxis, but with substantial variation in the duration of prophylaxis. We identified substantial practice variation, within and between countries, in the use of pharmacological prophylaxis in most types of benign surgery, and in the duration of prophylaxis after cancer surgery. I Dear Editor i Venous thromboembolism (VTE) and bleeding are serious complications of surgery.
- Subjects
LIVER surgery; LOW-molecular-weight heparin
- Publication
BJS Open, 2022, Vol 6, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
2474-9842
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bjsopen/zrac129