Assessing the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism [VTE] in Hospitalised Medical Patients:
The IMPROVE Predictive Score
The IMPROVE Associative Score
The IMPROVEDD Score
The IMPROVE Predictive Score
The IMPROVE Associative Score
The IMPROVEDD Score
Introduction
The IMPROVE Predictive score was designed to assesses the risk of VTE in hospitalised medical patients.
The IMPROVE Predictive score for VTE includes 4 independent risk factors for VTE present at admission.
The IMPROVE Associative score includes 7 variables present either at admission or during hospitalization.
The IMPROVEDD score adds D-dimer as a recognized risk factor to the conventional IMPROVE associative score.
The IMPROVEDD Score:
This predicts the VTE risk in medical patients during hospitalisation and includes 7 variables present either at admission or during hospitalisation but in addition the IMPROVEDD score adds D-dimer as an additional risk factor.