Translating Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prevention Evidence into Practice: A Multidisciplinary Evidence Implementation Project

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-39

  Duff, Jed ^a   Walker, Kim ^a   Omari, Abdullah ^a  

^a St Vincent's Private Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audit and feedback; Evidence implementation; Knowledge translation; Nursing; Patient safety; Venous thromboembolism (VTE)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PATHWAY; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AUSTRALIA; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HUMANS; NURSING AUDIT; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 79952741241     PISSN: 1545102X     EISSN: 17416787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2010.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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