Hospital Pharmacist-Hospitalist Collaboration Research Grant Program
 
2007 Recipients
“Use of a Screening Tool to Exclude Patients at Low Risk of VTE: A Novel Approach to Prophylaxis”
Pharmacist Investigator: Rachel E. Hroncich, PharmD
Hospitalist Investigator: J. Randle Adair, D.O.
Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Albuquerque, NM
Study objectives: To identify a risk factor screening tool that will be reliably utilized by hospitalists during the admission process. The investigators hope to determine if an abbreviated screening tool based on the exclusion of low-risk patients and those with contraindications to prophylaxis will be more consistently completed by a hospitalist upon patient admission, as compared to a tool which aims to identify patients who are at moderate-to-high risk, and without contraindications.

“Hospitalist and Pharmacist VTE Treatment Protocol Collaborative”
Pharmacist Investigator: Robert Weibert, PharmD
Hospitalist Investigator:  Gregory Maynard, MD, MS
UC San Diego Medical Center
San Diego, CA
Study objectives: To demonstrate markedly improved VTE management in our medical center via implementation of a VTE management best practices bundle, leveraging our past work and a proven performance improvement (PI) framework; to assess the impact of a VTE management bundle on pertinent outcomes; and to gain the experience of implementing our VTE treatment bundle necessary to build and disseminate a Web-based compendium of resources to assist other medical centers in accomplishing the same goals in an accelerated manner.