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Article: Studies from Leiden University, Medical Department in the area of pulmonary embolism described.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- December 10, 2008
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"The revised Geneva score is a fully standardized clinical decision rule (CDR) in the diagnostic workup of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE). The variables of the decision rule have different weights, which could lead to miscalculations in an acute setting," investigators in Netherlands report (see also Pulmonary Embolism).
"We have validated a simplified version of the revised Geneva score. Data from 1049 patients from 2 large prospective diagnostic trials that included patients with suspected PE were used and combined to validate the simplified revised Geneva score. We constructed the simplified CDR by attributing I point to each item of the ...
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