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Bibliography of Suggested Reading

ACEP Clinical Policy. Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting with Suspected Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2003;42:124-35.

ACEP Clinical Policy. Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting with Suspected PE. Ann Emerg Med. 2003;41:257-270.

Dempfle CE, Zips S, Ergül H, et al. The Fibrin Assay Comparison Trial (FACT) Evaluation of 23 Quantitative D-dimer Assays as Basis for the Development of D-dimer Calibrators. Journal of Thrombo Haemost. 2001;85(4):671-8.

Enden T, Klow NE. CT Pulmonary Angiography and Suspected Acute Pulmonary Embolism. Acta Radiologica. 2003;44:310-5.

Fedullo PF, Tapson VF. ACEP Clinical Policy. Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2003;349:1247-56.

Fedullo PF, Tapson VF. The evaluation of suspected pulmonary embolism. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;349:1247-1256.

Feied C. Pulmonary Embolism. EMedicine: Instant Access to the Mind of Medicine. 2002.

Goldhaber SZ. Pulmonary Embolism. New England Journal of Medicine. 1998;339:93-104.

Humphreys CW, Moores LK, Shorr AF. Cost-minimization Analysis of Two Algorithms for Diagnosing Acute Pulmonary Embolism. Thrombosis Research. 2004;113(5):275-82.

Klein JA, Webb WB, Jones AE, et al. Impact of a Rapid Rule-Out Protocol for Pulmonary Embolism on the Rate of Screening, Missed Cases, and Pulmonary Vascular imaging in an Urban US Emergency Department. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2004;44(5):490-502.

Kline JA, Mitchell AM, Kabrhel C, et al. Clinical criteria to prevent unnecessary diagnostic testing in emergency department patients with suspected pulmonary embolism. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 2004;2(8):1247-1255.

Lee-Lewandrowski E, Van Cott EM. Evaluation of the Biosite Triage® Quantitative Whole Blood D-dimer Assay and Comparison With the bioMérieux VIDAS® D-dimer Exclusion Test. Point of Care. 2005;4(3):133-37.

Perrier A, Roy P-M, Aujesky D, et al. Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism in Outpatients with Clinical Assessment, D-Dimer Measurement, Venous Ultrasound, and Helical Computed Tomography: A Multicenter Management Study. Am J Med. 2004;116:291–299.

Ramzi DW, Leeper KV. DVT and pulmonary embolism: Part I. Diagnosis. American Family Physician. 2004;69(12): 2829-2836.

Stein PD, Hull KC, Patel RE, et al. D-dimer for the Exclusion of Acute Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism. A Systematic Review. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2004;140:589-602.

Wells PS, Anderson DR, Rodger M, et al. Evaluation of D-dimer in the Diagnosis of Suspected Deep Vein Thrombosis. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;349:1227-35.

Wells PS, Anderson DR, Rodger M, et al. Excluding Pulmonary Embolism at the Bedside without Diagnostic Imaging: Management of Patients with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism Presenting to ED by Using a Simple Clinical Model and D-dimer. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2001;135:98-107.

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