Predicting in-hospital death during acute presentation with pulmonary embolism to facilitate early discharge and outpatient management.

Pulmonary embolism continues to be a significant cause of death. The aim was to derive and validate a risk prediction model for in-hospital death after acute pulmonary embolism to identify low risk patients suitable for outpatient management.A confirmed acute pulmonary embolism database of 1,426 con...

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Main Authors: Jerrett K Lau, Vincent Chow, Alex Brown, Leonard Kritharides, Austin C C Ng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5509112?pdf=render