When a test is too good: How CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7915, 2013, Pages

  Wiener, Renda Soylemez ^a,b   Schwartz, Lisa M ^c,d   Woloshin, Steven ^c,d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^d VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84880065927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f3368     Document Type: Article

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