The Effectiveness of Implementing the Weight-Based Heparin Nomogram as a Practice Guideline

Objective:

To determine the effectiveness of the nomogram in a community hospital that implemented it as a practice guideline.

Design:

A nonexperimental, retrospective time series.

Setting:

A 600-bed community teaching hospital and regional referral center in Phoenix, Ariz.

Patients:

The study population included 591 consecutive patients with venous thromboembolism, treated over a 5-year study period....