Mortality (will be calculated by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation):
Estimated mortality per VTE is 0.104.
Appendix A
Calculation of the Caprini Risk Score
The table below depicts the different scores for the factors represented in the Caprini score.11 The Caprini score is
calculated by adding the scores of all factors present in the patient. The Caprini score is interpreted in the following
way:
\cite{Caprini_2005}