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

BMJ. 2013 Jul 2:347:f3368. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3368.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Health Care Costs
  • Humans
  • Pulmonary Embolism / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pulmonary Embolism / economics
  • Pulmonary Veins / diagnostic imaging*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed* / adverse effects
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed* / economics
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed* / statistics & numerical data