Digitise VTE risk assessment audits, monitor compliance and identify opportunities to improve VTE prevention across your healthcare organisation with MEG's configurable audit platform.
What is VTE?
Hospital-acquired Venous Thromboembolisms (VTEs) is the most common preventable cause of in-hospital death. In the UK, for instance, 60% of all VTEs are hospital-associated, costing the NHS approximately £200 million.
Assessing patients’ risk of VTE and bleeding and choosing the appropriate thromboprophylaxis for them early in their hospital admission reduces their risk of developing a blood clot. According to NICE guidelines (NG89) in the UK, risk assessments should be performed on all patients on admission.
In recent times, COVID-19 has become associated with a high risk of VTE among hospitalised patients, further reinforcing the need for regular monitoring of assessment performance.
Improve VTE Risk Assessment Auditing
Effective VTE prevention starts with identifying patients at risk and ensuring appropriate assessment and prophylaxis processes are followed.
Regular VTE risk assessment audits help healthcare organisations understand how consistently these processes are being followed, identify gaps in practice and focus improvement efforts where they are needed most.
MEG's VTE audit tool enables clinical teams to complete audits digitally, monitor results in real time and turn identified gaps into improvement actions, all within one connected healthcare quality management platform.
Why use it?
MEG’s VTE Risk Assessment Audit can be used to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of your hospital’s performance (in carrying out timely and appropriate VTE risk assessments) and allow clinical leads and risk owners to formulate action plans in MEG’s QIP tool to close these gaps.
How to use it?
(Just click to get started.)
The audit it accessible on any mobile or desktop device and users can breeze through audit workflow with easy click, swipe scroll and actions, and by making use of the time saving shortcut buttons.
(‘Yes to All’ and ‘N/A to All’ shortcut buttons)
Add links to relevant reference material like guidelines or SOPs, so everything needed to complete the audit is located in one place.
(Embed links for easy access to reference material, privately hosted or public domain.)
Complete VTE Audits at the Point of Care
MEG's VTE risk assessment audit is accessible on mobile and desktop devices, allowing teams to complete audits wherever they are working.
Simple audit workflows, click and swipe actions and time-saving shortcuts make it easier to capture audit information without relying on paper forms or duplicate data entry.
Auditors can also access links to relevant reference material, including clinical guidelines, policies and SOPs, so the information needed to complete an audit can be available from the same workflow.
Turn VTE Audit Data into Actionable Insights
(Customisable reporting dashboards)
As always, reports are designed to be easily customised by nominated hospital admins (usually team leads/senior management) and can be filtered by date, ward, auditor, staff category, procedure observed etc. Data is also able to be exported in multiple formats.
Collecting VTE audit data is only useful if teams can understand what it is telling them. MEG's configurable reporting dashboards help clinical leads and senior management quickly identify compliance gaps, recurring issues and areas performing well.
Widgets can display data in a wide variety of formats, including: overall compliance scores, bar charts, pie charts, line charts, heatmaps - whatever you need to easily interpret results and gain insights fast. Dive deeper into the widget metrics by clicking on them:
(Breakdown of VTE Risk Factors)
(Breakdown of Compliance with VTE Guidelines)
From VTE Audit Findings to Improvement Actions
A VTE risk assessment audit shouldn't end with a compliance score.
When an audit identifies a gap, MEG connects the finding directly with Action Plan Management, enabling clinical leads and risk owners to assign actions, set ownership and deadlines, and monitor progress through to completion.
This closes the feedback loop between audit, finding and improvement, helping organisations demonstrate that identified gaps are being addressed rather than simply reported.