When a test is too good: how CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found

作者: R. S. Wiener , L. M. Schwartz , S. Woloshin

DOI: 10.1136/BMJ.F3368

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摘要: … evidence that some emboli may not need to be found. Donato and colleagues summarised three … who did not receive anticoagulants (at the clinician’s discretion), none had a recurrent …

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