Imaging evaluation for suspected pulmonary embolism: What do emergency physicians and radiologists say?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Jha, Saurabh ^a   Ho, Alex ^b   Bhargavan, Mythreyi ^b   Owen, Jean B ^b   Sunshine, Jonathan H ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Pulmonary embolism; Radiation; Scintigraphy; V Q scan

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOLOGIST; SCINTIGRAPHY;

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOLOGY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 74749087132     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2694     Document Type: Article

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