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January 1, 2018Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Comparative Performance of Clinical Risk Assessment Models for Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism in Medical Patients

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Why the study?

How do the Improve and Geneva clinical risk assessment models compare in predicting symptomatic VTE or VTE-related death in medical inpatients?

Population

1,478 medical inpatients from eight Swiss hospitals

Comparison

Improve clinical risk assessment model (RAM) vs Geneva clinical risk assessment model (RAM)

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

90 days

Authors

MBMarc BlondonUniversity of GenevaDSDavid SpirkUniversity of BernNKNils KucherVascular Medicine

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Overview

No usable data in source; leaves open all questions on thrombosis outcomes in cohorts.

Structured PICO

How do the Improve and Geneva clinical risk assessment models compare in predicting symptomatic VTE or VTE-related death in medical inpatients?

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Population
1,478 medical inpatients from eight Swiss hospitals
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Intervention
Improve clinical risk assessment model (RAM)
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Comparator
Geneva clinical risk assessment model (RAM)
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Outcome
Composite of symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE) or VTE-related death at 90 dayscomposite

Both the Improve and Geneva RAMs demonstrate comparably good discrimination for predicting hospital-acquired VTE in medical inpatients, though the Geneva RAM may offer higher sensitivity.

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Blondon et al. (2018) studied this question. The provided text is a journal masthead and contains no clinical study data.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a75cd1c117c5bc884dd7ed8https://doi.org/10.1160/th17-06-0403
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