Increasing Safe Outpatient Management of Emergency Department Patients With Pulmonary Embolism

R. Vinson, David; G. Mark, Dustin; K. Chettipally, Uli; Huang, Jie; S. Rauchwerger, Adina; Reed, Mary; S. Lin, James; V. Kene, Mamata; H. Wang, David; R. Sax, Dana; S. Pleshakov, Tamara; D. McLachlan, Ian; K. Yamin, Cyrus; R. Elms, Andrew; R. Iskin, Hilary; Vemula, Ridhima; M. Yealy, Donald; W. Ballard, Dustin; the eSPEED Investigators of the KP CREST Network*, for

doi:10.7326/m18-1206

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Increasing Safe Outpatient Management of Emergency Department Patients With Pulmonary Embolism

Published in Annals of Internal Medicine • Nov 13, 2018

Authors:

David R. Vinson

Dustin G. Mark

Uli K. Chettipally

Abstract

Background: Many low-risk patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) in the emergency department (ED) are eligible for outpatient care but are hospitalized nonetheless. One impediment to home discharge is the difficulty of identifying which patients can safely forgo hospitalization. Objective: To e...

Subject

Medicine

Emergency department

Pulmonary embolism

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