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Computed tomography pulmonary angiography is overused to diagnose pulmonary embolism in the emergency department of academic community hospital
Background: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common disease in the USA responsible for up to 10% of hospital mortality. Modified wells score (MWS) and D-dimer assay are used to categorize patients into high or low probability of PE. Patient with high probability need Computed tomography pulmonary angiog...
Autores principales: | Osman, Mohammed, Subedi, Suresh Kumar, Ahmed, Azza, Khan, Jahangir, Dawood, Thair, Ríos-Bedoya, Carlos F., Bachuwa, Ghassan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5804676/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29441158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2018.1428024 |
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