Thirty-day case-fatality rates for pulmonary embolism in the elderly

RM Siddique, MI Siddique, AF Connors… - Archives of internal …, 1996 - jamanetwork.com
Background: Short-term race-and sex-specific case-fatality rates for pulmonary embolism
(PE) in the elderly have not been studied previously, to our knowledge. Objectives: To
examine 30-day race-and sex-specific case-fatality rates of PE in the Medicare population
and to determine the risk of fatality when PE was a secondary diagnosis in 6 primary
concurrent conditions and 3 surgical procedures. Methods: Case-fatality rates were
determined using the Medicare Provider Analysis and Review Record files from 1984 …
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