https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:27198 Wed 11 Apr 2018 14:24:41 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:27194 Wed 11 Apr 2018 10:34:47 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:27197 Wed 11 Apr 2018 10:03:16 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:27085 40 medical patients each year were targeted to receive the intervention which consisted of a one-to-one educational visit on VTE prevention from a trained peer facilitator. The EOV protocol was designed by a multidisciplinary group of healthcare professionals using social marketing theory. Results: Nineteen (73%) of 26 eligible participants received an EOV. The majority (n = 16, 85%) felt the EOV was effective or extremely effective at increasing their knowledge about VTE prophylaxis and 15 (78%) gave a verbal commitment to provide evidence-based prophylaxis. The average length of each visit was 15 minutes (IQ range 15 to 20) and the average time spent arranging and conducting each visit was 92 minutes (IQ range 78 to 129). There was a significant improvement in the proportion of medical patients receiving appropriate pharmacological VTE prophylaxis following the intervention (54% to 70%, 16% improvement, 95% CI 5 to 26, p = 0.004). Conclusions: EOV is effective at improving doctors’ provision of pharmacological VTE prophylaxis to hospitalised medical patients. It was also found to be an acceptable implementation strategy by the majority of participants; however, it was resource intensive requiring on average 92 minutes per visit.]]> Fri 24 May 2019 12:29:42 AEST ]]>