Table 2.

Estimates of acutely ill hospitalized medical patients at risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) and thromboprophylaxis prescribing rates, by diagnosis.

Diagnosis	Total patient population	Prophylaxis prescribing rate (%)
Heart failure	1,848,861	40.1
Respiratory failure	1,490,543	31.0
Pneumonia	1,149,882	31.0
Cancer	1,055,435	27.6
Acute myocardial infarction	582,294	43.0
Arthropathy/spondylopathy	534,854	15.3
Stroke	508,384	49.2
Sepsis	420,000	15.3
Non-surgical trauma	418,696	20.3
Paralysis/coma	68,970	15.3
TOTAL	8,077,919	-