title: Patient Preferences for Receiving Education on Venous Thromboembolism Prevention - A Survey of Stakeholder Organizations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among hospitalized patients and is largely preventable. Strategies to decrease the burden of VTE have focused on improving clinicians' prescribing of prophylaxis with relatively less emphasis on patient education.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To develop a patient-centered approach to education of patients and their families on VTE: including importance, risk factors, and benefit/harm of VTE prophylaxis in hospital settings.
  
  
  METHODS
  The objective of this study was to develop a patient-centered approach to education of patients and their families on VTE: including importance, risk factors, and benefit/harm of VTE prophylaxis in hospital settings. We implemented a three-phase, web-based survey (SurveyMonkey) between March 2014 and September 2014 and analyzed survey data using descriptive statistics. Four hundred twenty one members of several national stakeholder organizations and a single local patient and family advisory board were invited to participate via email. We assessed participants' preferences for VTE education topics and methods of delivery. Participants wanted to learn about VTE symptoms, risk factors, prevention, and complications in a context that emphasized harm. Although participants were willing to learn using a variety of methods, most preferred to receive education in the context of a doctor-patient encounter. The next most common preferences were for video and paper educational materials.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients want to learn about the harm associated with VTE through a variety of methods. Efforts to improve VTE prophylaxis and decrease preventable harm from VTE should target the entire continuum of care and a variety of stakeholders including patients and their families.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Victor O
authors.initials: VO
authors.lastname: Popoola
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|Division of Health Sciences Informatics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Brandyn D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Hasan M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Shihab
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Norma E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Farrow
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|Department of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Dauryne L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Shaffer
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|Department of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Deborah B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Hobson
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Susan V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Kulik
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Paul D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Zaruba
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Kenneth M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Shermock
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Peggy S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Kraus
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Pronovost
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Michael B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Streiff
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|Department of Emergency Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.|Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Elliott R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Haut
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D057240:Patient Preference; D054556:Venous Thromboembolism / Q000517:prevention & control*