Strategies of Treatment: By Compression and Mobilisation (Ganzoni & Cie)

This issue of the Compression Bulletin contains interesting data concerning the prescription of medical compression stockings after deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in different countries. Susan Kahn and co-workers from Montreal published the results of a Canadian survey in which doctors and patients had been interviewed on their practices and perceptions regarding the use of compression stockings after DVT. As you can see in the first abstract of this issue the acceptance of compression therapy by the colleagues was surprisingly low. In general physicians highly underestimated the degree of patients' compliance. The authors kindly allowed us to translate their original questionnaire for the prescribers into different languages and to distribute it by Compression Bulletin among colleagues worldwide.