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Patricia Dykes: The DOVE eCQM Offers a Way to Measure, Benchmark, and Improve How We Detect VTE
Oct 1, 2025, 02:19

Patricia Dykes: The DOVE eCQM Offers a Way to Measure, Benchmark, and Improve How We Detect VTE

Patricia Dykes, Research Program Director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, shared on LinkedIn:

”New Publication in JAMA Network Open: Delays in diagnosing venous thromboembolism (VTE) are alarmingly common and deadly.

Using the DOVE electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM), we found:
· 79–82% of patients experienced >24h diagnostic delay
· 70–71% had delays >72h
· Delays were linked to significantly higher 30-day mortality
· Most missed opportunities were practitioner-related

Findings were consistent across 2 health systems with different EHR platforms, highlighting a scalable opportunity for improving diagnostic safety in outpatient care.

The DOVE eCQM offers a way to measure, benchmark, and improve how we detect VTE—and potentially other serious, symptomatically vague conditions.

Read the full study: doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.33928”

Read the full article in JAMA Network.

Article: Delayed Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Mortality Risk

Authors: Min-Jeoung Kang, Richard Schreiber, Veysel Karani Baris, Frank Chang, Shadi Hijjawi, Alice Kim, John Novoa-Laurentiev, Tim Nye, Stuart Lipsitz, Khalid Nawab, Michael Sainlaire, Wenyu Song, Ania Syrowatka, Gregory Piazza, Tien Thai, Li Zhou, Lipika Samal, David W. Bates, Patricia Dykes

Patricia Dykes: The DOVE eCQM Offers a Way to Measure, Benchmark, and Improve How We Detect VTE

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