Role of physician perception of patient smile on pretest probability assessment for acute pulmonary embolism

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 82-88

  Kline, Jeffrey A ^a   Neumann, Dawn ^a   Hall, Cassandra L ^a   Capito, Jacob ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical assessment, competence; diagnosis; respiratory, pulmonary embolism; thrombo embolic disease, diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACKACHE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; GESTALT PRETEST PROBABILITY; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LIMB PAIN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURITIC PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECALL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBSTERNAL PAIN; THORAX PAIN; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WELLS SCORE; ALGORITHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY; INDIANA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REGISTER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTALT THEORY; HUMANS; INDIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMILING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84982802625     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2016-205874     Document Type: Article

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