A New Risk Assessment Model for Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism in Critically Ill Children: A Report From the Children's Hospital-Acquired Thrombosis Consortium.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To create a risk model for hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism in critically ill children upon admission to an ICU.

Design

Case-control study.

Setting

ICUs from eight children's hospitals throughout the United States.

Subjects

Critically ill children with hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (cases) 0-21 years old and similar children without hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (controls) from January 2012 to December 2016. Children with a recent cardiac surgery, asymptomatic venous thromboembolism, or a venous thromboembolism diagnosed before ICU admission were excluded.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

The multi-institutional Children's Hospital-Acquired Thrombosis registry was used to identify cases and

SUBMITTER: Jaffray J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8738123 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature