Risk Assessment for Venous Thromboembolism in Chemotherapy-Treated Ambulatory Cancer Patients.

Journal: Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To design a precision medicine approach aimed at exploiting significant patterns in data, in order to produce venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk predictors for cancer outpatients that might be of advantage over the currently recommended model (Khorana score).

Authors

  • Patrizia Ferroni
    San Raffaele Roma Open University, Rome, Italy (PF, NS, FG).
  • Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
    Department of Enterprise Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
  • Noemi Scarpato
    San Raffaele Roma Open University, Rome, Italy (PF, NS, FG).
  • Silvia Riondino
    BioBIM (InterInstitutional Multidisciplinary Biobank, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy (SR, FG).
  • Umberto Nanni
    Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy (UN).
  • Mario Roselli
    Department of Systems Medicine, Medical Oncology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Rome, Italy (SR, MR).
  • Fiorella Guadagni
    San Raffaele Roma Open University, Rome, Italy (PF, NS, FG).