Pulmonary embolism: diagnosis, incidence and implications

Pulmonary Thromboembolism in American Indians and Alaskan Natives

“…8 This was remarkably close to the incidence of PE in a university hospital (0.4%), 6 a tertiary care center (0.5%), 9 and a community teaching hospital (0.3%).…”

“…5 Others showed that 93% of proven cases of PE at autopsy, if recognized ante mortem, were coded at hospital discharge. 6 Regarding the robustness of discharge codes for DVT, White et al 7 validated 92% of coded cases of idiopathic DVT.…”

Hospital volume and patient outcomes in pulmonary embolism

“…In one previous study, the International Classification of Diseases codes missed 13% of patients with pulmonary embolism. 31 Thus, we cannot entirely exclude the possibility that the potential for variation in the sensitivity of coding across study centres represents a threat to the validity of our findings (misclassification bias). We also acknowledge that we had no information on the accuracy of the procedure code for thrombolysis (99.10).…”

Deep Vein Thrombosis: Review and Update

“…The annual incidence of DVT is in between 69 to 139 cases per 100,000 people in general population, (1) whereas in hospitalised patients it is 350 per 100,000 admissions. (2) In another study, it has been observed that one in every nine persons develop DVT when younger than 80 years and clinically recognised VTE account for one of every twenty deaths in those older than 50 years. (3) The incidence is rare in children with less than one in 100,000 a year.…”