Carlos Andrés Quezada, Celia Zamarro, Vicente Gómez, Ina Guerassimova, Rosa Nieto, Esther Barbero, Diana Chiluiza, Deisy Barrios, Raquel Morillo, David Jiménez
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To determine the accuracy of clinical gestalt to identify patients with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism (PE) at low-risk for short-term complications. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study included a total of 154 consecutive patients diagnosed with acute symptomatic PE in a tertiary university hospital. We compared the prognostic accuracy of the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI), the simplified PESI (sPESI), and clinical gestalt of 1) 2senior physicians (one with and one without experience in the management of patients with PE), 2) a fourth-year resident of Pneumology, 3) a third-year resident of Pneumology, and 4) a second-year resident of Pneumology...
December 21, 2017: Medicina Clínica