- ►annals.org [PDF] PS Wells, DR Anderson, M Rodger, I Stiell, … - Annals of Internal …, 2001 - Am Coll Physicians Excluding Pulmonary Embolism at the Bedside without Diagnostic ... Imaging: Management
of Patients with Suspected Pulmonary ... Embolism Presenting to the Emergency Department
by Using a ... Philip S. Wells, MD, MSc; David R. Anderson, MD; Marc Rodger, MD, MSc; ... Cited by 501 - Related articles - All 15 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] SW Rathbun, GE Raskob, TL Whitsett - Annals of internal medicine, 2000 - Am Coll Physicians Suman W. Rathbun, MD; Gary E. Raskob, PhD; and Thomas L. Whitsett, MD ... Purpose: To determine
the sensitivity and specificity of helical computed tomography (CT) for the diagnosis of pulmonary
embolism and to determine the safety of with- holding anticoagulant therapy in patients ... Cited by 351 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
- ►nih.gov [PDF] J Wicki, TV Perneger, AF Junod, H … - Archives of Internal …, 2001 - archinte.highwire.org You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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- ►iihe.org [PDF] PD Stein, SE Fowler, LR Goodman, A … - New England Journal …, 2006 - content.nejm.org Results Among 824 patients with a reference diagnosis and a completed CT study, CTA was
inconclusive in 51 because of poor image quality. Excluding such inconclusive studies, the sensitivity
of CTA was 83 percent and the specificity was 96 percent. Positive predictive values were ... Cited by 359 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 29 versions
KE Wood - Chest, 2002 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Major pulmonary embolism (PE) results whenever the combination of embolism size and underlying
cardiopulmonary status interact to produce hemodynamic instability. Physical findings and standard
data crudely estimate the severity of the embolic event in patients without prior ... Cited by 313 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 14 versions
- ►psu.edu [PDF] TG McGinn, GH Guyatt, PC Wyer, CD Naylor, IG Stiell, … - JAMA, 2000 - Am Med Assoc Clinical experience provides clinicians with an intuitive sense of which findings on history, physical
examination, and investigation are critical in making an accurate diagnosis, or an accurate assessment
of a patient's fate. A clinical decision rule (CDR) is a clinical tool that quantifies the ... Cited by 293 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
- ►shouxi.net A Perrier, PM Roy, O Sanchez, G Le Gal, G … - The New England …, 2005 - nejm.highwire.org Results Pulmonary embolism was detected in 194 of the 756 patients (26 percent). Among the
82 patients with a high clinical probability of pulmonary embolism, multidetector-row CT showed
pulmonary embolism in 78, and 1 patient had proximal deep venous thrombosis and a CT ... Cited by 273 - Related articles - All 45 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] A Perrier, N Howarth, D Didier, P Loubeyre, … - Annals of internal …, 2001 - Am Coll Physicians Setting: Emergency department of a teaching and community hospital. Patients: 299 patients
with clinically suspected pulmonary embo- lism and a plasma D-dimer level greater than 500
g/L. Intervention: Pulmonary embolism was established by using a validated algorithm ... Cited by 264 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
- ►138.5.102.101 [PDF] D Musset, F Parent, G Meyer, S Maître, P Girard, C … - The Lancet, 2002 - Elsevier PE was diagnosed in 360 (34–6%) patients; 55 had positive ultrasonography despite negative
spiral CT. Of 601 patients with negative spiral CT and ultrasonography, 76 were clinically assessed
as having a high probability of PE; lung scanning or angiography showed PE in four ... Cited by 261 - Related articles - All 13 versions
- ►jasoncartermd.com [PDF] PF Fedullo, VF Tapson - The New England journal of medicine, 2003 - nejm.highwire.org Although the exact incidence of pulmonary embolism is uncertain, it is estimated that 600,000
episodes occur each year in the United States, resulting in 100,000 to 200,000 deaths. 1 When
the diagnosis of embolism is confirmed and effective therapy is initiated, recurrence of ... Cited by 245 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 20 versions
