Commentary on: Incidence and Predictors of Venous Thromboembolism in Abdominoplasty

Among healthcare providers, we all agree that collecting data is essential to document our current approach to patient care and learn how to optimize and improve this. However, if data are merely collected and never analyzed, it serves no real purpose. We congratulate the authors of this excellent paper¹ for "looking into the box" and uncovering some interesting observations through analysis of the Internet Based Quality Assurance Program (IBQAP) database that lends insight into the enigma of venous thromboembolism (VTE) occurring in patients undergoing abdominoplasty.