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. 2016 Jan 16;41:81–91. doi: 10.1007/s11239-015-1313-4

Table 2.

Predictive model for VTE according to Khorana et al. [25]

Patient characteristics Risk score
Site of cancer
 Very high risk (stomach, pancreas) 2
 High risk (lung, lymphoma, gynecologic, bladder, testicular) 1
Prechemotherapy platelet count ≥350,000/mm3 1
Hemoglobin level less than 10 g/dl or use of red cell growth factors 1
Prechemotherapy leukocyte count >11,000/mm3 1
Body mass index ≥35 kg/m2 or more 1

High-risk score ≥3

Intermediate risk score 1–2

Low-risk score 0