Excluding pulmonary embolism in primary care using the Wells-rule in combination with a point-of care D-dimer test: a scenario analysis

BACKGROUND: In secondary care the Wells clinical decision rule (CDR) combined with a quantitative D-dimer test can exclude pulmonary embolism (PE) safely. The introduction of point-of-care (POC) D-dimer tests facilitates a similar diagnostic strategy in primary care. We estimated failure-rate and ef...

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Autores principales: Lucassen, Wim AM, Douma, Renée A, Toll, Diane B, Büller, Harry R, van Weert, Henk CPM
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20831834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-11-64

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20831834
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-11-64

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