Diagnostic management of inpatients with a positive D-dimer test: developing a new clinical decision-making rule for pulmonary embolism
Background A positive D-dimer test has high sensitivity but relatively poor specificity for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, causing difficulty for clinicians unskilled in pulmonary embolism diagnosis in determining whether a patient with a positive D-dimer test needs to undergo computed tomogra...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Pulmonary Circulation |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2045894020943378 |