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Differentiating low-risk and no-risk PE patients: the PERC score
Christopher R Carpenter1, Samuel M Keim, Rawle A Seupaul
1Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Background:
Pulmonary embolism (PE) remains one of the most challenging diagnoses in emergency medicine. The Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria (PERC) score, a decision aid to reliably distinguish low-risk from very low-risk PE patients, has been derived and validated.
Clinical Question:
Can a subset of patients with sufficiently low risk for PE be identified who require no diagnostic testing?
Evidence Review:
The PERC score derivation and validation trials were located using PubMed and Web of Science. A critical appraisal of this research is presented.
Results:
One single-center and another multi-center validation trial both confirmed that the eight-item PERC score identified a very low-risk subset of patients in whom PE was clinically contemplated with a negative likelihood ratio 0.17 (95% confidence interval 0.11-0.25) in the larger trial. If applied, the rule would have identified 20% of potential PE patients as very low risk.
Conclusion:
The PERC score provides clinicians with an easily remembered, validated clinical decision rule that allows physicians to forego diagnostic testing for pulmonary embolus in a very low-risk population.
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