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Venous Thromboembolism as a Marker of Quality of Care in Trauma
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 03/25/09

Huseynova K et al. - There was substantial variation in rates of VTE across trauma centers. There was no relationship between DVT and PE outlier status, which is counter to the understanding of the biologic relationship between the two. Lastly, the very low Intraclass correlation coefficient for PE compared with DVT suggests that to a large extent, practice variation has very little impact on PE rates. In light of these findings and concerns about patient ascertainment of DVT, VTE rates might not be a useful measure of quality of care.

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