Hospital mortality due to pulmonary embolism and an evaluation of the usefulness of preventative interventions

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 166-170

  Scarvelis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Anderson, Josdalyne ^a   Davis, Laurie ^a   Forgie, Melissa ^a,b   Lee, James ^a   Petersson, Linn ^a   Ramsay, Tim ^b   Wells, Philip S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

ICD classifications; Mortality; Prevention; Pulmonary embolism; Retrospective

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CODING; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMBOLISM PREVENTION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; VENA CAVA FILTER;

AGED; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RECORDS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENA CAVA FILTERS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 76449085498     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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