Risk factors for the development of hospital-acquired pediatric venous thromboembolism—Dealing with potentially causal and confounding risk factors using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) analysis

• Leonardo Rodrigues Campos ,

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

  * E-mail: camposlr@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1569-7360

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• Maurício Petroli,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Flavio Roberto Sztajnbok,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Elaine Sobral da Costa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Leonardo Rodrigues Brandão,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7711-4530

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• Marcelo Gerardin Poirot Land

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

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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