Systematic review of venous thromboembolism risk categories derived from Caprini score.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE, including pulmonary embolism [PE] and deep vein thrombosis [DVT]) is a preventable cause of hospital death. The Caprini risk assessment model (RAM) is one of the most commonly used tools to assess VTE risk. The RAM is operationalized in clinical practice by grouping several risk scores into VTE risk categories that drive decisions on prophylaxis. A correlation between increasing Caprini scores and rising VTE risk is well-established. We assessed whether the increasing VTE risk categories assigned on the basis of recommended score ranges also correlate with increasing VTE risk.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of articles that used the Caprini RAM to assign VTE risk categories and that reported corresponding VTE

SUBMITTER: Hayssen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9783939 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature