1. Sex as a prognostic factor for mortality in adults with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism
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Javier Zamora, Raquel Perez, Jesús López-Alcalde, Alfonso Muriel, Elena Stallings, Carlos A Quezada Loaiza, Sander van Doorn, Noelia Álvarez-Díaz, Borja M. Fernandez-Felix, David Jimenez, and University of Zurich
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Prognostic factor ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Population ,education ,610 Medicine & health ,Review ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,PICOTS ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Protocol ,Pharmacology (medical) ,030212 general & internal medicine ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,Pulmonary embolism ,10034 Institute of Complementary Medicine ,Acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism ,Predicting mortalit ,Sex ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (prognosis). The objectives are as follows: To determine whether sex (i.e. being a male or a female) is an independent (i.e. autonomous) prognostic factor for predicting mortality in adults with acute symptomatic PE. See Table 1 for a formulation of the review question in population, index prognostic factor, comparator, outcome(s), timing, and setting (PICOTS) format. pre-print 378 KB
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- 2021