Guidance on School Dismissals

Another Validation of Clinical Assessment and D-Dimer to Rule Out PE Key point: Among patients with low or intermediate risk, the sensitivity and negative predictive value of D-dimer testing were 100%. Citation: Gupta RT, Kakarla RK, Kirshenbaum KJ, et al. D-dimers and efficacy of clinical risk estimation algorithms: Sensitivity in evaluation of acute pulmonary embolism. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2009; 193: 425-430. Despite research showing that clinically important pulmonary embolism (PE) can be excluded when …

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