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| Pulmonary
embolism: a clinical prediction rule helps diagnosed it |
Clinical bottom line (level 1a)
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A tenth of patients attending an emergency deparment
with a suspected PE has one.
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A clinical diagnosis rule based on history and
examination can rank patients at low, medium or high risk for a
pulmonary embolism.
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Patients ranked at low-risk and with a normal d-dimer
are unlikely to have a PE (LR - 0.023) .
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A diagnostic protocol for PE missed 0.6% of PEs.
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