Risk stratification for hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism in medical patients (RISE): Protocol for a prospective cohort study.

Choffat, Damien; Farhoumand, Pauline Darbellay; Jaccard, Evrim; de la Harpe, Roxane; Kraege, Vanessa; Benmachiche, Malik; Gerber, Christel; Leuzinger, Salomé; Podmore, Clara; Truong, Minh Khoa; Dumans-Louis, Céline; Marti, Christophe; Reny, Jean-Luc; Aujesky, Drahomir; Rakovic, Damiana; Limacher, Andreas; Rossel, Jean-Benoît; Baumgartner, Christine; Méan, Marie (2022). Risk stratification for hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism in medical patients (RISE): Protocol for a prospective cohort study. PLoS ONE, 17(5), e0268833. Public Library of Science 10.1371/journal.pone.0268833

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BACKGROUND

Hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE) is one of the leading preventable causes of in-hospital mortality. However, its risk assessment in medically ill inpatients is complicated due to the patients' heterogeneity and complexity of currently available risk assessment models (RAMs). The simplified Geneva score provides simplicity but has not yet been prospectively validated. Immobility is an important predictor for VTE in RAMs, but its definition is inconsistent and based on subjective assessment by nurses or physicians. In this study, we aim to prospectively validate the simplified Geneva score and to examine the predictive performance of a novel and objective definition of in-hospital immobilization using accelerometry.

METHODS AND ANALYSIS

RISE is a multicenter prospective cohort study. The goal is to recruit 1350 adult inpatients admitted for medical illness in three Swiss tertiary care hospitals. We collect data on demographics, comorbidities, VTE risk and thromboprophylaxis. Mobility from admission to discharge is objectively measured using a wrist-worn accelerometer. Participants are followed for 90 days for the occurrence of symptomatic VTE (primary outcome). Secondary outcomes are the occurrence of clinically relevant bleeding, and mortality. The evolution of autonomy in the activities of daily living, the length of stay, and the occurrence of readmission are also recorded. Time-dependent area under the curve, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values are calculated for each RAM (i.e. the simplified and original Geneva score, Padua, and IMPROVE score) with and without the objective mobility measures to assess their accuracy in predicting hospital-acquired VTE at 90 days.

ETHICS AND EXPECTED IMPACT

The ethics committee approved the protocol and the study was registered on ClinicalTrials.gov as NCT04439383. RISE has the potential to optimize VTE risk stratification, and thus to improve the quality of care of medically hospitalized patients.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Further Contribution)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of General Internal Medicine (DAIM) > Clinic of General Internal Medicine
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Department of Clinical Research (DCR)

UniBE Contributor:

Aujesky, Drahomir, Rakovic, Damiana, Limacher, Andreas, Rossel, Jean-Benoît, Baumgartner, Christine

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1932-6203

Publisher:

Public Library of Science

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

25 May 2022 11:58

Last Modified:

20 Feb 2024 14:16

Publisher DOI:

10.1371/journal.pone.0268833

PubMed ID:

35609087

Additional Information:

Baumgartner and Méan contributed equally to this work.

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/170247

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/170247

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