Medicare's New Regulations for Deep Vein Thrombosis as a “Never Event”: Wise or Worrisome?

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a University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester

b Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass

Requests for reprints should be addressed to Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA 02115

Funding: Dr. Goldhaber was supported, in part, by an unrestricted grant from Sanofi-Aventis. Drs. Sutedjo, Ng, and Piazza report no outside support for their work on this project.

Conflict of Interest: None.

Authorship: All authors had access to the data and participated in writing this manuscript.

PII: S0002-9343(09)00575-0

doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.04.019

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