Hospitalization is less common in ambulatory patients with acute pulmonary embolism diagnosed before emergency department referral than after arrival
Academic Emergency Medicine Jul 17, 2020
Vinson DR, Bath H, Huang J, et al. - Researchers sought to characterize emergency department (ED) patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) who underwent diagnostic pulmonary imaging as an outpatient before referral to the ED for definitive management. They conducted a retrospective cohort study including 2,352 eligible ED patients with acute PE; of these 344 (14.6%) had a clinic‐based diagnosis. Per findings, ambulatory outpatients with acute PE are frequently diagnosed before ED arrival. ED patients with a clinic‐based diagnosis of PE were less likely to be hospitalized than their counterparts with an ED‐based diagnosis: 80.8% vs 92.0%
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