Clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of patients diagnosed with acute pulmonary embolism in the emergency department: Initial report of EMPEROR (multicenter emergency medicine pulmonary embolism in the real world registry)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 700-706

  Pollack, Charles V ^a   Schreiber, Donald ^b   Goldhaber, Samuel Z ^c   Slattery, David ^d   Fanikos, John ^c   O'Neil, Brian J ^e   Thompson, James R ^f   Hiestand, Brian ^g   Briese, Beau A ^b   Pendleton, Robert C ^h   Miller, Chadwick D ⁱ   Kline, Jeffrey A ^j  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d University of Medicine   (United States)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^g THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

anticoagulation; epidemiology; fibrinolysis; pulmonary embolism; venous thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DALTEPARIN; ENOXAPARIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; TENECTEPLASE;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79551523332     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.05.071     Document Type: Article

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