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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
Materias:	Original Article
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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