Risk factors for the development of hospital-acquired pediatric venous thromboembolism-Dealing with potentially causal and confounding risk factors using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) analysis.

Risk factors for the development of hospital-acquired pediatric venous thromboembolism-Dealing with potentially causal and confounding risk factors using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) analysis.

<h4>Introduction</h4>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...

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Main Authors: Leonardo Rodrigues Campos, Maurício Petroli, Flavio Roberto Sztajnbok, Elaine Sobral da Costa, Leonardo Rodrigues Brandão, Marcelo Gerardin Poirot Land
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242311

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