Relative impact of risk factors for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism: a population-based study.

By J. Heit, W. O'Fallon, T. Petterson, Christine M. Lohse, M. Silverstein, D. Mohr, L. Melton. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2002

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American Society of Hematology 2018 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: prophylaxis for hospitalized and nonhospitalized medical patients. (2018, background): “About 50% of all VTE events in the community occur as a result of a current or recent hospital admission, mainly for surgery (24%) or acute medical illness (22%).(2,3) Thus, hospitalization for acute medical illness is an important opportunity for applying prevention efforts.”
Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism (2008, background): “VTE is currently regarded as the result of the interaction between patient-related and setting-related risk factors.(18,19) Patient-related predisposing factors are usually permanent, whereas setting-related predisposing factors are more often temporary (Table 3).”
Epidemiology of cancer-associated venous thrombosis. (2013, background): “6) for an active malignancy.(5) White and coworkers used the California discharge data set to identify a cohort of 21 002 patients hospitalized with incident venous thrombosis in 1996.”