and in few cases, the
risk of bleeding and recent surgery was the reasons for not starting
anticoagulant therapy. Meanwhile, using anticoagulant for the
prevention of DVT has been strongly recommended [24,25]. Almost
half of the patients in our study had a sedative in their medication
order (42.8%) and in the majority of cases, it was discontinued once
a day. This preventive measure was implemented only in 11% of the
cases in a similar study [26].