title: Preventing deaths from VTE in hospital. 1: Risk factors.
abstract: Part 1 of this two-part unit on venous thromboembolism (VTE) examines what VTE is, its risk factors in medical and surgical patients, its consequences and the financial costs to the NHS of both treatment and failure to prevent it.
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Wilson
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control