Why the study?
Mortality related to pulmonary embolism varies widely in the reported literature even for the same clinical severity category of PE.
Population
Patients presenting to a large tertiary care teaching hospital with acute PE discharge diagnosis
Comparison
PE clinical severity categories
Design
Retrospective electronic medical record review
Authors
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Supports severity-based stratification for acute PE mortality risk; retrospective cohort data leaves open generalizability.
Short-term mortality from acute pulmonary embolism is highly dependent on clinical severity, with massive PE carrying a nearly 30% mortality rate.
Asthana et al. (2020) studied this question.
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