A Bleeding Risk Score for Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Receiving Direct Oral Anticoagulants - PubMed
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- #Cancer-Associated VTE
- #Direct Oral Anticoagulants
- #Bleeding Risk Score
- Developed ONCO-DOAC BLEED score for major bleeding risk in cancer-associated VTE patients on DOACs.
- Identified risk factors: history of major bleeding, chronic kidney disease, NSAID use, distant metastatic/terminal cancer, upper GI/pancreatic/uterine cancer.
- Score showed moderate discrimination in derivation (C-index ~0.68) and validation (C-index ~0.63) cohorts, outperforming existing scores like VTE-BLEED.