Consensus document of Academy of Emergency Medicine and Care, Italian Committee for Standardization of Hematology and Laboratory Methods, SIBioC-Laboratory Medicine and Italian Society of Laboratory Medicine on D-dimer testing for suspected venous thromboembolism in emergency departments;Documento di consenso di "Academy of Emergency Medicine and Care", Comitato Italiano per la Standardizzazione dei Metodi Ematologici e di Laboratorio, SIBioC - Medicina di Laboratorio e Società Italiana di Medicina di Laboratorio sull'utilizzo del dosaggio del D-dimero per il sospetto di tromboembolismo venoso in condizioni di urgenza

Biochimica Clinica

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 136-138

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Cervellin, Gianfranco ^a   Casagranda, Ivo ^b   Morelli, Benedetto ^c   Testa, Sophie ^d   Tripodi, Armando ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b C Arrigo Children's Hospital   (Italy)

^c Ospedale di Legnano   (Italy)

^d CREMONA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARDIZATION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84898463559     PISSN: 03930564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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