This course is a recorded video from the Dr. Loren Roth Quality and Patient Safety Speaker Series event Stopping the Clots: The Next Steps in Fighting DVT / PE from June 12, 2018. Part 1A VTE Patient Experience is presented by Vonda Vaden Bates; Part1B Venous Thromboembolism: Critical Evaluation Of Selected Risk Assessment Principles is presented by Joseph A. Caprini, MD, MS, FACS, RVT, Emeritus, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, IL, Senior Clinician Educator, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. This course is only available to UPMC physicians and employees.

The Speaker Series was designed to provide health care clinicians, executives, managers, and board members with an overview of theory and best practices related to quality and patient safety. It encourages new thinking, problem solving, and the forging of innovative pathways to deliver on the promise of a safer health care system. CME credit will be offered after each segment of videos and completion of an evaluation and survey following each segment.