ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2013
When a test is too good: how CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found.
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80 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Sex as a prognostic factor for mortality in adults with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Incidental pulmonary embolism in oncologic patients-a systematic review and meta-analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of spectral CT compared to scintigraphy in the diagnosis of acute and chronic pulmonary embolisms.European radiology · 2020Pooled it
- Fatal recurrent VTE after anticoagulant treatment for unprovoked VTE: a systematic review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2018Pooled it
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- Venous thromboembolism mortality trends among us adults with cancer, 1999-2024.Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis · 2026Article
- Pulmonary Embolism Detection in Unenhanced CT Exams: A Radiomic-Based Classifier as a Promising Screening-Diagnostic Tool.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Review of multimodal machine learning approaches in healthcare.An international journal on information fusion · 2025Article
- Safety and Diagnostic Utility Pulmonary Embolism Rule-Out Criteria (PERC) and D-Dimer in Emergency Department.Journal of acute medicine · 2024Article
- Epidemiology, Etiology, and Pathophysiology of Pulmonary Embolism.The International journal of angiology : official publication of the International College of Angiology, Inc · 2024Review
- Contemporary approaches to pulmonary embolism diagnosis: a clinical review.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2024Article
- D-dimer levels to exclude pulmonary embolism and reduce the need for CT angiography in COVID-19 in an outpatient population.PloS one · 2024Observational
- Short- and Long-Term Mortality for Patients With and Without a Cancer Diagnosis Following Pulmonary Embolism in Denmark, 2000 to 2020: A Nationwide Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- Debunking myths about screening: How to screen more judiciously.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2023Article
- Case Report: Two Case Reports of Pulmonary Hypertension after mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Assessment of the Utilization of Validated Diagnostic Predictive Tools and D-Dimer in the Evaluation of Pulmonary Embolism: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study from a Public Hospital in New York City.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Incidental findings in medical imaging.The British journal of radiology · 2023Article
- Beware of overdiagnosis harms from screening, lower diagnostic thresholds, and incidentalomas.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2023Article
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