In a recent study, the London, UK-based Office of Health Economics (which is funded by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry) stated that over 400 deaths could have been avoided if patients had been treated prophylactically for deep vein thrombosis and its complication, pulmonary embolism. This, it says, could have saved the UK National Health Service up to L82 million ($131 million) in 1993.
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