Time trends in pulmonary embolism in the United States: evidence of overdiagnosis.

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Time trends in pulmonary embolism in the United States: evidence of overdiagnosis.

Arch Intern Med. 2011 May 9;171(9):831-7

Authors: Wiener RS, Schwartz LM, Woloshin S

Computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) may improve detection of life-threatening pulmonary embolism (PE), but this sensitive test may have a downside: overdiagnosis and overtreatment (finding clinically unimportant emboli and exposing patients to harms from unnecessary treatment).

PMID: 21555660 [PubMed - in process]

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