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Review: negative ELISA results are best for excluding a diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm.9.6.186

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    Stein PD, Hull RD, Patel KC, et al. D dimer for the exclusion of acute venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism: a systematic review. Ann Intern Med 2004;140:589–602.
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 Q What are the test characteristics of various d-dimer assays for diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE)?

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    PubMed (1983 to January 2003), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (1988 to January 2003), and bibliographies of retrieved articles.

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    published prospective trials in any language that included a specific statement that DVT or PE was being diagnosed, used objective tests for diagnosis, included a broad spectrum of consecutive patients with suspected DVT or PE, included patients with and without disease, independently interpreted d-dimer and diagnostic standard results, made the decision to perform the diagnostic standard independent of d-dimer …

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    • For correspondence: Dr P D Stein, Saint Joseph Mercy-Oakland, Pontiac, MI, USA. steinptrinity-health.org

    • Source of funding: not stated.