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Volume 11, Numer 2

 

Prevention of VTE in hospitalised patients – the CMO’s report

 

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, Sir Liam Donaldson, recently published the report of the independent expert working group on the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in hospitalised patients. This is the culmination of a political process initiated in March 2005 by the publication of the House of Commons Health Committee report that concluded that much more needed to be done to prevent avoidable deaths from VTE.

 


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