Clinical prediction rules: A reader's guide;Les règles de prédiction: Un guide de lecture

Revue des Maladies Respiratoires

Volumn 20, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 249-256

  Perrier, A ^a,b   Perneger, T ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Prediction rules; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LUNG EMBOLISM; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0038460247     PISSN: 07618425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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