Table 8. Barriers and causes of current practice versus guideline adherence reported by obstetricians.

Barrier	No.	%
1-High costs	49	86.0
2-Concern about bleeding risks	41	71.9
3-Difficult or inconvenient to use guidelines in our patients, and patients complain and incompliance	30	52.6
4-Lack of awareness of guidelines	28	49.1
5-Need for new resources or facilities that are not available in our hospitals	27	47.4
6-Lack of familiarity with guidelines	19	33.3
7-Concern about infection resulting from wound hematomas	14	24.6
8-Lack of self-efficacy of some physicians (perceived inability to follow guidelines)	14	24.6
9-Disagreement between guidelines is confusing	6	10.5
10-VTE not practiced as a problem in our experience	3	5.3