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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 17.
Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Aug;130(2):343–353. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182589e49

Table 4.

Comparison of observed VTE rates at stratified risk levels between the 2005 and 2010 Caprini Risk Assessment Models. P values compare observed rates of VTE at individual risk levels using the 2005 and 2010 Caprini RAM.

2005 Caprini Model 2010 Caprini Model p value
Risk Level Patients without VTE Patients with VTE (%) Patients without VTE Patients with VTE (%)
Caprini 1-2 0 0 137 1 (0.72%) ---
Caprini 3-4 1429 6 (0.42%) 698 3 (0.43%) 0.974
Caprini 5-6 1143 14 (1.21%) 929 11 (1.17%) 0.933
Caprini 7-8 525 10 (1.87%) 908 11 (1.20%) 0.300
Caprini >8 193 12 (5.85%) 618 16 (2.52%) 0.021