Was the frequency of pulse abnormality in aortic dissection provided in these textbooks?*

Textbooks†	Text mentions pulse abnormalities in aortic dissection	Text gives frequency of pulse abnormalities in aortic dissection	Text gives frequency of any other clinical findings in aortic dissection	Text references quantitative studies of the frequency of clinical findings in aortic dissection
*“Yes” indicates that the text cites at least one such study. None of these texts cites all 3 studies we found,^3–⁵ and none presents a critical appraisal or a quantitative compilation of this evidence.
†Textbooks are listed alphabetically. Those in italics are listed by their widely used short titles, whereas those in plain text are listed by the last name of the first or only editor.
Ball⁶	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Barker⁷	Yes	No	No	No
Cecil’s⁸	Yes	No	Yes	No
Goroll⁹	Yes	No	Yes	No
Harrison’s ¹⁰	Yes	No	No	Yes
Kelley¹¹	Yes	No	No	No
McGee¹²	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Noble¹³	Yes	No	No	No
Oxford ¹⁴	Yes	Yes	No	No
SAM ¹⁵	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stein¹	Yes	No	No	No
UpToDate ¹⁶	Yes	No	Yes	Yes