NIH R01 · 2024
PROJECT SUMMARY Of the 250,000 annual patients in the United States with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), the majority are at low risk for morbidity and mortality. In fact, evidence-based guidelines suggest that up to 50% of patients with an acute PE are at sufficiently low risk for complications that they can be safely managed without hospital admission. Yet fewer than 5% of patients nation-wide are currently discharged for outpatient management. Reliable access to anticoagulant medications and outpatient follow-up are commonly cited barriers to outpatient management. However, prevailing heuristics used by Emergency Medicine clinicians to enable rapid decision-making also firmly link acute…
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