Use of a real-time risk-prediction model to identify pediatric patients at risk for thromboembolic events: study protocol for the Children's Likelihood Of Thrombosis (CLOT) trial.

Pediatric patients have increasing rates of hospital-associated venous thromboembolism (HA-VTE), and while several risk-prediction models have been developed, few are designed to assess all general pediatric patients, and none has been shown to improve patient outcomes when implemented in routine clinical care.