Clinical usefulness of adjusted D-dimer cut-off values to exclude pulmonary embolism in a community hospital emergency department patient population

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 765-768

  Vossen, Josephina A ^a   Albrektson, Joshua ^a   Sensarma, Anirban ^a   Williams, Scott C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision rules; Cut off values; D dimer; Pulmonary computed tomography angiography; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CUT-OFF VALUE; D-DIMER; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY ROOMS;

DIMERS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D; IOHEXOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866531729     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ar.2012.120105     Document Type: Article

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