Comparison of the unstructured clinician gestalt, the wells score, and the revised Geneva score to estimate pretest probability for suspected pulmonary embolism

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Penaloza, Andrea ^a,b   Verschuren, Franck ^a   Meyer, Guy ^c   Quentin Georget, Sybille ^b   Soulie, Caroline ^b   Thys, Frédéric ^a   Roy, Pierre Marie ^b  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^c HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GENEVA SCORE; GESTALT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WELLS SCORE; APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVALUATION STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY;

APPENDICITIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84880570185     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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