Bronwynne Rafferty, Katlego Mthimunye, Million Bimerew
Theory-practice gap: Nursing students' self-reported depth of understanding of bioscience and its relevance to clinical practice
PloS one
cancer patients risk pulmonary embolism pe catheterbased therapies cbt novel reperfusion options pe though data patients cancer lacking patients intermediate highrisk pe identified using national readmission database nrd 2017 2020 primary outcome inhospital death 90day readmission secondary outcomes inhospital bleeding 90day readmission venous thromboembolism vterelated right heart failurerelated reasons bleeding propensity scores estimated using logistic regression inverseprobability treatment weighting iptw utilized compare outcomes cbt cbt well cbt versus systemic thrombolysis total 7785 patients included 2511 highrisk pe 1045 134 managed cbt iptw cbt associated lower rates index hospitalization death 089 95 ci 083096 90day readmission hr 075 95 ci 069081 higher rates inhospital bleeding 111 95 ci 103120 predominantly postprocedural bleeding cbt associated lower risk major bleeding 208 vs 248 080 95 ci 068094 compared systemic thrombolysis among patients cancer intermediate highrisk pe cbt associated lower inhospital death 90day readmission cbt also associated decreased risk index hospitalization major bleeding compared systemic thrombolysis prospective randomized trials inclusion patients cancer needed confirm findings