Wells Score and Poor Outcomes among Adult Patients with Subsegmental Pulmonary Embolism

Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 539-545

  Angriman, Federico ^a   Ferreyro, Bruno L ^a   Posadas Martinez, María L ^b   Giunta, Diego ^b   Vazquez, Fernando J ^b   Vollmer, William M ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

pulmonary embolism; risk factors; subsegmental

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISTAXIS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBSEGMENTAL PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TIME OF DEATH; TRAVEL; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WELLS SCORE; ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84937925117     PISSN: 10760296     EISSN: 19382723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1076029614559772     Document Type: Article

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