rate of agreement of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis with the guidelines. Results The total number of patients was 1030, Patients in the medical wards constituted most of the participants. The rate of concordance with the guidelines was 718/1030 (69.7%) in the total number of patients When the patients were divided into groups: those that required venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and those that did not, the rate of agreement with guidelines in the subgroup that needed prophylaxis 160/456 (35.1%) was lower than the rate in the subgroup that did not need prophylaxis 558/574 (97.2%), p value <0.001. Conclusion venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in Al-Basheer hospital is not appropriate and underused, this might be attributed to the absence of an institutional guideline.
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