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Successful interventions to decrease these missed doses have been developed and tested in academic hospitals, but it remains unclear if these interventions can be scaled and implemented in community hospitals.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n To disseminate and implement an evidence-based, comprehensive strategy to reduce missed doses of VTE prophylaxis.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>\n This prospective cohort study was conducted on 7 floors across a community hospital within a large health system. Participants were all hospitalized adult patients admitted from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019 (preintervention), and July 1 to December 31, 2019 (postintervention), who were prescribed at least 1 dose of pharmacologic VTE prophylaxis. 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There were significant improvements in patient refusal (7280 doses [8.8%] vs 1696 doses [5.8%]; OR, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.46-0.58) and doses missed for reasons other than patient refusal (3363 [4.1%] vs 1022 [3.5%]; OR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.77-0.99). There was no difference in the proportion of patients with VTE (9 patients [0.08%] vs 6 patients [0.1%];\n P<\/jats:italic>\n \u2009=\u2009.58).\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusion and Relevance<\/jats:title>\n This study found that providing engaging education to frontline nurses and just-in-time, patient-centered education to patients significantly improved administration and acceptance of prescribed VTE prophylaxis for hospitalized patients across an entire community hospital. 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