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Critical predictors of pulmonary embolism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2015

Joshua Guttman  and
Jerrald Dankoff
Joshua Guttman*
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine Residency Program, McGill University Health Centre
Jerrald Dankoff
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC
*
Emergency Medicine Residency Program, McGill University Health Centre, 687 Pine Avenue West, Room A4.62, Montreal, QC H3A 1A1; [email protected]

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Keywords

clinical predictorspulmonary embolism
Type
Knowledge to Practice • Des connaissances à la pratique
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , March 2012 , pp. 120 - 123
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2012

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