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- Title
Evaluation of pulmonary embolism in the emergency department and consistency with a national quality measure: quantifying the opportunity for improvement.
- Authors
Venkatesh, Arjun K; Kline, Jeffrey A; Courtney, D Mark; Camargo, Carlos A; Plewa, Michael C; Nordenholz, Kristen E; Moore, Christopher L; Richman, Peter B; Smithline, Howard A; Beam, Daren M; Kabrhel, Christopher
- Abstract
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed a performance measure designed to increase imaging efficiency for the evaluation of pulmonary embolism (PE) in the emergency department (ED). To our knowledge, no published data have examined the effect of patient-level predictors on performance.
- Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2012, Vol 172, Issue 13, p1028
- ISSN
1538-3679
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1804