Arjun K. Venkatesh, MD, MBA; Jeffrey A. Kline, MD; D. Mark Courtney, MD; et al.
To quantify the prevalence of avoidable imaging in emergency department (ED) patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), Venkatesh and coauthors performed an analysis of prospective, multicenter observational study of ED patients evaluated for PE between 2004 and 2007 at 11 US EDs.