Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious and all too frequent hospital complication, therefore assessing each patient’s individual risk of VTE is an important part of their care.  Multiple models are available for risk assessment, however most not only include multiple data points requiring redundant entry, but can be labor intensive and time-consuming to complete on [...]

Background: It is widely accepted that hospitalized patients warrant risk assessment for venous thromboembolism (VTE) upon hospital admission. Although many VTE risk assessment models include a patient mobility element for calculating risk, a standardized method of determining mobility is lacking. We sought to determine if physician assessment of anticipated patient mobility upon hospital admission using [...]