Risk Score Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism in Pediatric Patient
Purpose: | To identify a noncritically-ill pediatric patient at risk for hospital-associated venous thromboembolism (VTE) based on the score of Atchison et al. |
Specialty: | Hematology Oncology Clinical Laboratory |
Objective: | risk factors |
ICD-10: | I80, I81, I82 |
Description: | Atchison et al developed a score for identifying a noncritically-ill pediatric patient at risk for hospital-associated venous thromboembolism. A patient at risk may benefit from prophylactic measures for risk reduction. The authors are from All Children's Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine (St. Petersburg, Florida), University of South Florida, the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), and the University of Colorado. |
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