RESPECT-ED: Rates of Pulmonary Emboli (PE) and Sub-Segmental PE with Modern Computed Tomographic Pulmonary Angiograms in Emergency Departments: A Multi-Center Observational Study Finds Significant Yield Variation, Uncorrelated with Use or Small PE Rates

• David Mountain ,

  * E-mail: 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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6552-4855

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• Gerben Keijzers ,

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

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

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• 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

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• Anthony Joseph ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

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• 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

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• Gabriel Blecher,

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

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• Jeremy Furyk,

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

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• 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

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• Karthik Velusamy,

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

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• Andrew Munro,

  Affiliation Emergency Department, Nelson Hospital, Nelson, New Zealand

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• Kylie Baker,

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

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• Frances Kinnear,

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

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• Ahses Mukherjee,

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

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• Gina Watkins,

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

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• Paul Buntine,

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

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• Georgia Livesay,

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

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• 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

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