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Melissa Wei

Melissa Wei

Melissa Y. Wei, MD, MPH, MS is an Associate Professor-in-Residence of Medicine at UCLA and the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, a hospitalist and multimorbidity researcher who co-authored the JVS article discussed on Audible Bleeding.

Sep 17, 2026

10:09
When someone's trying to implement this or calculate this in their own data, what are the main heavy lifting challenges that someone's going to have while they're calculating?
10:18
Thanks so much.
10:18
Yeah, that's a great question.
10:19
So that's an excellent challenge with the different types of data.
10:23
So the original development was actually self-reported physician diagnosed conditions using the best data possible.
10:30
So it was three large nationally sampled cohorts.
10:33
Nurses held, nurses held too, health professionals follow up studies spanning decades of data like 1987 all the way to 2008.

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26:15
Is it possible to get there? And are there any sort of limitations that this doesn't work?

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