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Increasing Rate of Pulmonary Embolism in Trauma Patients at a Level One Trauma Center: An Opportunity for Quality Improvement?
Introduction Pulmonary embolism (PE) is the most common cause of preventable hospital death in trauma patients, with 100,000 patients dying from PE annually. A steadily increasing PE rate was observed over seven years in the trauma population at a single level one trauma center. Our study seeks to a...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cureus
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8891546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35251860 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21793 |