TY  - JOUR
T1  - TRends in in-hospital deaths among hospitalizations with pulmonary embolism
AU  - Tsai J, Grosse SD, Grant AM, Hooper W, Atrash HK
Y1  - 2012/06/25
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.198
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 960
EP  - 961
VL  - 172
IS  - 12
N2  - 
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a potentially life-threatening condition that typically occurs when a thrombus from deep veins in the leg, pelvis, arms, or heart embolizes to the lungs.1- 2 Recent data linked PE to approximately 247 000 hospitalizations in the United States in 2006.3 To our knowledge, the case-fatality rate and estimated number of in-hospital deaths among a national representative example of hospitalizations that encompass first-listed and any-listed PE diagnoses in the United States are limited. Therefore, we report nationally representative estimates of in-hospital deaths (ie, annual number and case-fatality rate) among hospitalizations with a PE diagnosis (ie, first-listed and any-listed) in the United States by analyzing data from the 2001-2008 National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS).4

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.198
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.198
ER  -