Computed tomography pulmonary angiography is overused to diagnose pulmonary embolism in the emergency department of academic community hospital
Background: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common disease in the USA responsible for up to 10% of hospital mortality. Modified wells score (MWS) and D-dimer assay are used to categorize patients into high or low probability of PE. Patient with high probability need Computed tomography pulmonary angiog...
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Greater Baltimore Medical Center,
2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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