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DOI: 10.1160/TH17-02-0116
Low discriminating power of the modified Ottawa VTE risk score in a cohort of patients with cancer from the RIETE registry
Publication History
Received:
21 February 2017
Accepted after major revision:
27 April 2017
Publication Date:
22 November 2017 (online)
Summary
Treatment of patients with cancer-associated venous thromboembolism (VTE) remains a major challenge. The modified Ottawa score is a clinical prediction rule evaluating the risk of VTE recurrences during the first six months of anticoagulant treatment in patients with cancer-related VTE. We aimed to validate the Ottawa score using data from the RIETE registry. A total of 11,123 cancer patients with VTE were included in the analysis. According to modified Ottawa score, 2,343 (21%) were categorised at low risk for VTE recurrences, 4,525 (41%) at intermediate risk, and 4,255 (38%) at high risk. Overall, 477 episodes of VTE recurrences were recorded during the course of anticoagulant therapy, with an incidence rate for low, intermediate, and high risk groups of 6.88% (95% CI 5.31–8.77), 11.8% (95% CI 10.1–13.6), and 21.3% (95% CI 18.8–24.1) patient-years, respectively. Overall mortality had an incidence rate of 21.1% (95% CI 18.2–24.3), 79.4% (95% CI: 74.9–84.1), and 134.7% (95% CI: 128.3–141.4) patient-years, respectively. The accuracy and discriminating power of the modified Ottawa score for VTE recurrence was modest, with low sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value, and a C-statistics of 0.58 (95% CI: 0.56–0.61). In our analysis, the modified Ottawa score did not accurately predict VTE recurrence among patients with cancer-associated thrombosis, thus hindering its use in clinical practice. It is time to define a new score including other clinical predictors.
Keywords
Venous thromboembolism - venous thrombosis - recurrence - neoplasms - decision support techniques* A full list of the RIETE investigators is given in the Appendix.
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