Appropriateness of Diagnostic Management and Outcomes of Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
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Summary
Whether physicians in emergency departments routinely used evidence-based diagnostic criteria for managing patients with suspected pulmonary embolism was assessed and whether the inappropriateness of the diagnostic criteria influenced the outcome of the patients was determined.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2006-02-07
- Cited by
- 356
- References
- 28
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Keywords
Medicine, Pulmonary embolism, Odds ratio, Incidence (geometry), Confidence interval
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- Sensitivität des D-Dimers zum Ausschluß venöser thromboembolischer Erkrankungen im klinischen Alltag
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- Aktuelles Management der akuten Lungenembolie
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