About the Authors

David Mountain

dmount63@gmail.com

Affiliations Discipline of Emergency Medicine, School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Emergency Department, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Gerben Keijzers

Contributed equally to this work with: Gerben Keijzers, Daniel Fatovich

Affiliation Emergency Medicine Department, Gold Coast University Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia

Kevin Chu

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Anthony Joseph

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Emergency Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Catherine Read

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Pleural Medicine Unit, Institute for Respiratory Health, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Centre for Respiratory Health, School of Medicine & Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Respiratory Medicine Unit (Research, Pleural Diseases) Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Gabriel Blecher

Affiliations Emergency Medicine, Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jeremy Furyk

Affiliation Emergency Department, The Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Chrianna Bharat

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Statistical Support, Department of Research, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Centre for Applied Statistics, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Karthik Velusamy

Affiliation Emergency Department, The Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Andrew Munro

Affiliation Emergency Department, Nelson Hospital, Nelson, New Zealand

Kylie Baker

Affiliation Emergency Medicine, Ipswich Hospital, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

Frances Kinnear

Affiliation Emergency Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Ahses Mukherjee

Affiliation Emergency Medicine, Armadale General Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Gina Watkins

Affiliation Emergency Medicine, Sutherland Hospital and Community Health Centres, Caringbah, Australia

Paul Buntine

Affiliation Emergency Department, Box Hill Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Georgia Livesay

Affiliation Emergency Medicine Research, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Daniel Fatovich

Contributed equally to this work with: Gerben Keijzers, Daniel Fatovich

Affiliations Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Emergency Department, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: David Mountain has provided paid expert witness opinions and testimony about diagnosis of pulmonary embolism for the Medical Board of Western Australia and the Western Australian coroner.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DM DF GK KC AJ CR GB CB KV JF KB A. Munro FK A. Mukherjee GW PB GL. Data curation: DM CR CB. Formal analysis: DM CB. Investigation: DM DF GK KC AJ GB KV JF KB A. Munro FK A. Mukherjee GW PB GL. Methodology: DM DF GK CB KC AJ CR GB KV JF KB A. Munro FK A. Mukherjee GW PB GL. Project administration: DM CR. Resources: DM CB CR. Supervision: DM CR. Visualization: DM CB. Writing – original draft: DM DF GK. Writing – review & editing: DM DF GK CB KC AJ CR GB KV JF KB A. Munro FK A. Mukherjee GW PB GL.