PubMed Central, : RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2025; 16(3): e0013. ISSN: 2076-9172Published online 2025 July 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10548

Table 1.

Patient Exclusion Criteria.

Exclusion Criteria
Inconclusive CT results (“suspicion of pulmonary embolism”)

Chronic PE

Incomplete clinical data

Underwent multiple CTs to rule out PE during hospitalization

Age-adjusted normal D-dimer levels tenfold below patient’s age ^*
CT performed outside of the emergency or internal medicine department within first 48 h of hospitalization
No biomarker or D-dimer blood sample acquired during the 48 hours before CT
Padua score not calculated on admission to ward^†

CT, computed tomography; PE, pulmonary embolism.

* The literature has accepted this threshold for older adults.¹³

† Calculation of Padua score is a standard

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2025; 16(3): e0013. ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2025 July 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10548