Can clinical features distinguish between immobile patients with stroke at high and low risk of deep vein thrombosis? Statistical modelling based on the CLOTS trials cohorts

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1067-1073

  Dennis, Martin ^a   Sandercock, Peter ^a   Reid, John ^b   Graham, Catriona ^a   Murray, Gordon ^c   Venables, Graham ^d   Rudd, Anthony ^e   Bowler, Gill ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BORDERS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; STOCKINGS, COMPRESSION; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 80052631033     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.235945     Document Type: Article

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