The Burden of Unnecessary Testing From a Regularly Ordered Laboratory Assay: Age-Adjusted d-Dimer Quality Improvement Study

Diagnosing acute pulmonary embolism (PE) involves clinical suspicion in combination with sequential diagnostic tests including d-dimer laboratory assays. Although the sensitivity of this assay is well validated and thoroughly tested, a false-positive result can lead to unnecessary and costly testing...

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Autores principales: Letourneau, Marcel M., Zughaib, Marc, Berry, Abeer, Zughaib, Marcel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32907350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1076029620939182

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32907350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1076029620939182

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