A retrospective analysis of the combined use of PERC rule and Wells score to exclude pulmonary embolism in the Emergency Department.

Jmg TheunissenC ScholingW E van HasseltJ van der MatenEwoud Ter Avest

Published in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2016)

The combination of a Wells score <2 and a PERC rule of 0 had a suboptimal sensitivity for excluding PE in our sample of patients presenting in the ED. Further studies are warranted to test this algorithm in larger populations.

Keyphrases

pulmonary embolism
emergency department
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
inferior vena cava
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
machine learning
deep learning
electronic health record