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Implementation of the YEARS algorithm to optimise pulmonary embolism diagnostic workup in the emergency department

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  • Juliana Duffy Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ferco Henricus Berger Department of Medical Imaging, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ivy Cheng Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Emergency Services, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dominick Shelton Department of Emergency Services, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Family & Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jean-Philippe Galanaud Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rita Selby Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kristine Laing Department of Emergency Services, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tali Fedorovsky Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • John Matelski Biostatistics Research Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Justin Hall Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Emergency Services, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Juliana Duffy; juduffy{at}gmail.com
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Duffy J, Berger FH, Cheng I, et al
Implementation of the YEARS algorithm to optimise pulmonary embolism diagnostic workup in the emergency department
BMJ Open Quality 2023;12:e002119. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002119

Publication history

  • Received September 3, 2022
  • Accepted April 29, 2023
  • First published May 22, 2023.
Online issue publication 
February 14, 2024

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