Predicting pulmonary embolus in orthopedic trauma patients using the wells score

Orthopedics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Young, Matthew D ^a   Daniels, Alan H ^a   Evangelista, Peter T ^a   Reinert, Steven E ^b   Ritterman, Scott ^a   Christino, Melisa A ^a   Thakur, Nikhil A ^c   Born, Christopher T ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lifespan   (United States)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM; WELLS SCORE;

ALGORITHMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHODE ISLAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84878666529     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20130426-29     Document Type: Article

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