Andrew Amos, Kyungmi Lee, Tarun Sen Gupta, Bunmi Malau-Aduli
Defining the Boundaries of Psychiatric and Medical Knowledge: Applying Cartographic Principles to Self-Organising Maps
Studies in health technology and informatics
identify risk factors venous thromboembolism develop venous thromboembolism risk assessment models pediatric trauma patients single institution national registry retrospective cohort studies john hopkins level 1 adult pediatric trauma center national trauma data bank patients 21 years younger hospitalized following traumatic injuries john hopkins 19872011 patients 21 years younger national trauma data bank 20082010 20112012 none clinical characteristics johns hopkins patients without venous thromboembolism compared multivariable logistic regression analysis used identify independent venous thromboembolism risk factors weighted risk assessment scoring systems developed based previously identified factors national trauma data bank patients 20082010 scoring systems validated cohort johns hopkins cohort national trauma data bank 20112012 fortynine 17366 pediatric trauma patients 028 diagnosed venous thromboembolism admission trauma center adjusting potential confounders venous thromboembolism independently associated older age surgery blood transfusion higher injury severity score lower glasgow coma scale score additional factors identified 402329 pediatric patients national trauma data bank 2008 2010 independent risk factors logistic regression analysis national trauma data bank cohort selected incorporated weighted risk assessment scoring systems two models developed crossvalidated two separate pediatric trauma cohorts 1 282535 patients national trauma data bank 2011 2012 2 17366 patients johns hopkins receiver operating curve using models validation cohorts area curves ranged 9094 venous thromboembolism infrequent trauma pediatric patients developed weighted scoring systems stratify pediatric trauma patients risk venous thromboembolism systems may potential guide riskappropriate venous thromboembolism prophylaxis children trauma