A multidisciplinary pulmonary embolism response team (PERT)—experience from a national multicenter consortium

Autor: Jacob Schultz, Nicholas Giordano, Hui Zheng, Blair A. Parry, Geoffrey D. Barnes, Gustavo A. Heresi, Wissam Jaber, Todd Wood, Thomas Todoran, D. Mark Courtney, Soophia Naydenov, Sameer Khandhar, Philip Green, Christopher Kabrhel
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Pulmonary Circulation, Vol 9 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-8940
20458940
DOI: 10.1177/2045894018824563
Popis: Background We provide the first multicenter analysis of patients cared for by eight Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams (PERTs) in the United States (US); describing the frequency of team activation, patient characteristics, pulmonary embolism (PE) severity, treatments delivered, and outcomes. Methods We enrolled patients from the National PERT Consortium™ multicenter registry with a PERT activation between 18 October 2016 and 17 October 2017. Data are presented combined and by PERT institution. Differences between institutions were analyzed using chi-squared test or Fisher's exact test for categorical variables, and ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis test for continuous variables, with a two-sided P value
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