## Abstract ## BACKGROUND: The Joint Commission requires that all medical inpatients be assessed for venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk, but available risk stratification tools have never been validated. ## METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients age ≥18 years, admitted to
Venous thromboembolism in COPD hospitalized patients
✍ Scribed by Raquel Barba; Antonio Zapatero; Javier Marco; Juan E. Losa; Susana Plaza; Jose Manuel Casas; Jesús Canora
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 191 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0929-5305
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