The incidence of acute pulmonary embolism following syncope in anticoagulant-naïve patients: A retrospective cohort study

• Danny Epstein ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Danny Epstein, Gidon Berger

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: danyep@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine "B", Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7032-7007

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• Gidon Berger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Danny Epstein, Gidon Berger

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine "B", Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

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• Noam Barda,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clalit Research Institute, Chief Physician’s Office, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Erez Marcusohn,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine "B", Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

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• Yuval Barak-Corren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Predictive Medicine Group, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, United States of America, Shaare Tzedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Khitam Muhsen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Ran D. Balicer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Clalit Research Institute, Chief Physician’s Office, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel, Epidemiology Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheba, Israel

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• Zaher S. Azzam

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine "B", Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, The Rappaport's Faculty of Medicine, The Technion Institute, Haifa, Israel

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