Clinical outcomes in patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism and negative helical computed tomographic results in whom anticoagulation was withheld

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2033-2038

  Donato, Anthony A ^a   Scheirer, Jorge J ^a   Atwell, Margaret S ^a   Gramp, Jeffrey ^a   Duszak Jr , Richard ^a  

^a READING HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0141676727     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.17.2033     Document Type: Article

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