Clinical features of patients inappropriately undiagnosed of pulmonary embolism

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1646-1650

  Torres Macho, Juan ^a,b   Mancebo Plaza, Ana B ^c   Crespo Giménez, Ana ^d   De Barros, M Rosa Sanz ^d   Bibiano Guillén, Carlos ^e   Fallos Martí, Raúl ^e   Calderón Parra, Jorge ^a,b   De Miguel Yanes, José M ^c  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTA CRISTINA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Hospital Universitario del Sureste de Madrid   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INFANTA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INFANTA LEONOR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INFILTRATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHEST PAIN; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUGH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEST PAIN; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUGH; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84889662452     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: 15328171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2013.08.037     Document Type: Article

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