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The Effects of Age on Pneumonia Testing

We found that years was pretty specific and it was very efficient at reducing the proportion of patients who needed a CT scan. We also looked at a new pulmonary embolism testing strategy called adjust unlikely. Adjust unlikely has taken the well score item, pulmonary emblism, the most likely diagnosis or not to determine whether you can age adjust the D-dimer for people over 50. So what does this mean which one should we use? Well, does it really matter if we miss 7% of all cases of pulmonaryembolism over the course of our entire careers? I would argue that it does matter so people who have had unprovoked PE regardless of the size of the blood clot

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