2020
DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.17.20153718
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Risk Factors for the Development of Hospital-Acquired Pediatric Venous Thromboembolism: Dealing With Potentially Causal and Confounding Risk Factors Using Directed Acyclic Graph (Dag) Analysis

Abstract: Introduction: Hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (HA-VTE) in children comprises multiple risk factors that should not be evaluated separately due to collinearity and multiple cause and effect relationships. This is one of the first case-control study of pediatric HA-VTE risk factors using Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) analysis (figure 1). Material and Methods: Retrospective, case-control study with 22 cases of objectively confirmed HA-VTE and 76 controls matched by age, sex, unit of admission, and period … Show more

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