作者
Lukasz A Myc, Jigna N Solanki, Andrew J Barros, Nebil Nuradin, Matthew G Nevulis, Kranthikiran Earasi, Emily D Richardson, Shawn C Tsutsui, Kyle B Enfield, Nicholas R Teman, Ziv J Haskal, Sula Mazimba, Jamie LW Kennedy, Andrew D Mihalek, Aditya M Sharma, Alexandra Kadl
发表日期
2020/12
期刊
Respiratory Research
卷号
21
页码范围
1-9
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
Acute pulmonary embolism remains a significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Benefit of recently developed multidisciplinary PE response teams (PERT) with higher utilization of advanced therapies has not been established.
Methods
To evaluate patient-centered outcomes and cost-effectiveness of a multidisciplinary PERT we performed a retrospective analysis of 554 patients with acute PE at the university of Virginia between July 2014 and June 2015 (pre-PERT era) and between April 2017 through October 2018 (PERT era). Six-month survival, hospital length-of-stay (LOS), type of PE therapy, and in-hospital bleeding were assessed upon collected data.
Results
317 consecutive patients were treated for acute PE during an 18-month period following institution of a multidisciplinary PE program; for 120 patients PERT was activated (PA), the remaining 197 patients with acute PE were …
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