IMPROVE score

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  • IMPROVE predictive score for VTE: IMPROVE predictive risk score assesses the risk of VTE among hospitalized medical patients. It includes 4 independent risk factors for VTE which are present at admission.[1]
  • IMPROVE associative score for VTE: IMPROVE associative risk score assesses the risk of VTE among hospitalized medical patients. It includes 7 variables present either at admission or during hospitalization; however the timing of the presence of some of the factors compared to the onset of VTE was not available.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Spyropoulos AC, Anderson FA, Fitzgerald G, Decousus H, Pini M, Chong BH; et al. (2011). "Predictive and associative models to identify hospitalized medical patients at risk for VTE". Chest. 140 (3): 706–14. doi:10.1378/chest.10-1944. PMID 21436241.