Inpatient surgical care: treatment to prevent blood clots after surgery

Certain types of surgery can increase patients’ risk of having blood clots after surgery. Blood clots and embolisms can cause serious health problems and even death. When hospitals give the correct treatment to prevent blood clots to surgery patients at risk, it may indicate that the hospital provides a higher level of patient care.

About measure

This measure tracks how often patients having certain types of surgery received treatment to prevent blood clots in the period from 24 hours before surgery to 24 hours after surgery.

Northwestern Memorial Hospital wants to provide the most up to date data. For this measure, our data is from a more recent time period than the benchmark time period.

Note: In this measure, a higher number is better.