Venous thromboembolism – importance of national registries

1. Lozano F, Trujillo-Santos J, Barron M, et al; RIETE Investigators. Home versus in-hospital treatment of outpatients with acute deep venous thrombosis of the lower limbs. J Vasc Surg. 2014;59(5):1362-7. 2. Lopes LC, Eikelboom J, Spencer FA, et al. Shorter or longer anticoagulation to prevent recurrent venous thromboembolism: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 2014 Jul 4;4(7):e005674. BACKgROuND: There is a debate regarding importance of national registries vs. multinational ones. A comparison of national vs. international registry on the venous thromboembolism (VT = deep venous thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism) was done in this paper.