Comparative analysis of risk assessment of venous thromboembolism between American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines and British National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Guidelines
LIU Feng-lin
Abstract：It is a critical issue for the prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) to stratify the patients into different risk levels correctly. The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline made its recommendations of VTE prophylaxis based on the calculating score of Caprini's risk assessment model, a validated assessment tool for VTE risks in various clinical settings, while the updated British National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guideline established an independent procedure to judge the VTE risks in hospitalized patients. Although both approaches are evidence-based, whether they will result to equal effectiveness of risk assessment is still unknown. Moreover, no definite conclusion has been drawn on which one is more practical in the real-world clinical situation. Comprehensive understanding of the different strategies for VTE risk assessment would be helpful to clinical strategy making.
Keywords：venous thromboembolismrisk assessmentguidelineAmerican College of Chest PhysiciansBritish National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 119-124 )