Is it time to raise the bar? Age-adjusted D-dimer cutoff levels for excluding pulmonary embolism: Answers to the July 2014 journal club questions

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 678-683

  Kirschner, Jonathan ^a   Kline, Jeffrey ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT;

ANTICOAGULATION; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPREHENSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; NOTE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCEPTION; PLANNING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84919340913     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2014.07.450     Document Type: Article

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