Current Status of the Korean Venous Thromboembolism Registry

The Korean venous thromboembolism (VTE) registry, which was initiated by the Working Parties of Korean Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis, and the Korean Society of Hematology, is a web-based multicenter registry (http://kdvt.chamc.co.kr) for recruiting consecutive VTE patients. The aim of the registry is to prospectively collect data on the epidemiology and clinical outcomes of VTE from a large, unselected cohort of patients, and to provide data on the true incidence and management of VTE in the real-world. By the end of 2007, the starting year of the registry, 840 patients were registered. By the end of 2008, 1,121 were registered, with 1,289 by the end of 2009, and 1,463 by April 2010 from 11 hospitals. The first report on the epidemiologic characteristics of 596 consecutive VTE patients was released in October 2007.