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Table 1 Demographics for patient admissions

From: Electronic prescribing systems as tools to improve patient care: a learning health systems approach to increase guideline concordant prescribing for venous thromboembolism prevention

 

Pre- intervention: 2 year run in period for data collection (Jan 2011–Nov 2012)

After intervention 1: introduction of Junior Doctor Clinical Dashboard (Nov 2012–Feb 2014)

After intervention 2: introduction of mandatory VTE assessment and prescribing (Feb 2014–Nov 2015)

After intervention 3: change in order of ‘no reduced mobility’ (Nov 2015–Nov 2020)

n

31,071

26,260

39,931

137,743

Female, n (%)

14,740 (47.4%)

12,675 (48.3%)

19,135 (47.9%)

67,340 (49.0%)

Age (years)

74 (59–86)

73 (57–85)

72 (57–84)

68 (53–80)

  1. Values are counts (and percentages), except for age where they are medians and quartiles