Evaluation of Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department and Consistency With a National Quality Measure

K. Venkatesh, Arjun; A. Kline, Jeffrey; Mark Courtney, D.; A. Camargo, Carlos; C. Plewa, Michael; E. Nordenholz, Kristen; L. Moore, Christopher; B. Richman, Peter; Smithline, Howard; M. Beam, Daren; Kabrhel, Christopher

doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1804

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Evaluation of Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department and Consistency With a National Quality Measure

Published in Archives of Internal Medicine • Jun 5, 2012

Authors:

Arjun K. Venkatesh

Jeffrey A. Kline

D. Mark Courtney

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed a performance measure designed to increase imaging efficiency for the evaluation of pulmonary embolism (PE) in the emergency department (ED). To our knowledge, no published data have examined the effect of patient-level predictors on performa...

Subject

Emergency department

Medicine

Pre- and post-test probability

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