About the Authors

Geert-Jan Geersing

Contributed equally to this work with: Geert-Jan Geersing, Toshihiko Takada

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

G.J.Geersing@umcutrecht.nl

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Toshihiko Takada

Contributed equally to this work with: Geert-Jan Geersing, Toshihiko Takada

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Department of General Medicine, Shirakawa Satellite for Teaching And Research (STAR), Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

Frederikus A. Klok

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Dutch Thrombosis Network, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

Harry R. Büller

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

D. Mark Courtney

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Yonathan Freund

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sorbonne University, Emergency Department, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Javier Galipienzo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Service of Anesthesiology, MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Gregoire Le Gal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Waleed Ghanima

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Østfold Hospital Trust, Norway and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Jeffrey A. Kline

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Menno V. Huisman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Dutch Thrombosis Network, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

Karel G. M. Moons

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Arnaud Perrier

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Angiology and Hemostasis, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Sameer Parpia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Oncology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Helia Robert-Ebadi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Angiology and Hemostasis, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Marc Righini

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Angiology and Hemostasis, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Pierre-Marie Roy

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UNIV Angers, UMR (CNRS 6015—INSERM 1083) and CHU Angers, Department of Emergency Medicine, F-CRIN InnoVTE, Angers, France

Maarten van Smeden

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Milou A. M. Stals

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Dutch Thrombosis Network, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

Philip S. Wells

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Kerstin de Wit

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Noémie Kraaijpoel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Nick van Es

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the following authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: FAK reports research grants from Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boehringer-Ingelheim, MSD, Daiichi-Sankyo, Actelion, the Dutch thrombosis association, The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development and the Dutch Heart foundation. GLG holds the Chair on Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism from the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and a Clinician Scientist award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. WG reports advisory board participation from Amgen, Novartis, Pfizer, Principia Biopharma Inc, a Sanofi Company, and Sanofi, SOBI, Griffols, UCB; lecture honoraria from Amgen, Novartis, and Pfizer; and grants from Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, SOBI, Griffols and Pfizer. No other disclosures were reported.