Prediction of recurrent venous thrombosis in all patients with a first venous thrombotic event: The Leiden Thrombosis Recurrence Risk Prediction model (L-TRRiP)

• Published in: PLOS Medicine
• Main Authors: Timp, Jasmijn F., Braekkan, Sigrid K., Lijfering, Willem M., van Hylckama Vlieg, Astrid, Hansen, John-Bjarne, Rosendaal, Frits R., le Cessie, Saskia, Cannegieter, Suzanne C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2019
• Subjects: Research Article; Meier; Norway; Tromsø
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6788686/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31603898; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002883

BACKGROUND: Recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) is common. Current guidelines suggest that patients with unprovoked VTE should continue anticoagulants unless they have a high bleeding risk, whereas all others can stop. Prediction models may refine this dichotomous distinction, but existing models...