Compliance with current VTE prophylaxis guidelines and risk factors linked to complications of VTE prophylaxis in medical inpatients: a prospective cohort study in a Spanish internal medicine department.

Objectives: To evaluate the degree of compliance with the current guidelines regarding venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in medical patients during admission and to identify risk factors linked to complications of VTE prophylaxis.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: The Internal Medicine Department of the University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela (tertiary referral hospital).

CRONIGAL: Prognostic index for chronic patients after hospital admission.

Objective: We have followed patients admitted to a Polypathology and Advanced Age Unit for two years in order to identify the variables that best define the mortality prognosis at medium-term (1-2years) for chronic and polypathological patients requiring admission at an Internal Medicine Department.

Methods: This is an observational, prospective study in clinical practice. Polypathological, chronic or multimorbidity patients were included.