Well-presented Canadian prospective study juxtaposing a combination of Wells scoring and dimers to the imaging gold standard.
It was particularly fascinating to read the referenced assertion that:
…..the prevalence of pulmonary embolism among patients who undergo diagnostic testing is substantially higher in Europe than in North America.. (Penultimate paragraph): We wonder what would be the robust causes of such disparity……..
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Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism with d-Dimer Adjusted to Clinical Probability
Submitted by: Aristotle Protopapas
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
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Author(s): Clive Kearon, Kerstin de Wit, Sameer Parpia, Sam Schulman, Marc Afilalo, Andrew Hirsch, Frederick A. Spencer, Sangita Sharma, Frédérick D’Aragon, Jean-François Deshaies, Gregoire Le Gal, Alejandro Lazo-Langner, Cynthia Wu, Lisa Rudd-Scott, Shannon M. Bates, and Jim A. Julian, M.Math. for the PEGeD Study Investigators
