Right-sizing testing for pulmonary embolism: Recognizing the risks of detecting any clot

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 524-526

  Green, Steven M ^a   Yealy, Donald M ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; D DIMER;

ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD CLOT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; LOW RISK POPULATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; REVIEW; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THORAX PAIN; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84861529520     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.12.014     Document Type: Editorial

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