Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Venous Thrombosis in Patients Hospitalized With Syncope: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Study in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Amol A Verma; Hassan Masoom; Shail Rawal; Yishan Guo; Fahad Razak; GEMINI Investigators

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.1246

Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Venous Thrombosis in Patients Hospitalized With Syncope: A Multicenter Cross-sectional Study in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Jul 1;177(7):1046-1048. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.1246.

Authors

Amol A Verma¹, Hassan Masoom², Shail Rawal³, Yishan Guo⁴, Fahad Razak⁵; GEMINI Investigators

Collaborators

GEMINI Investigators:
Janice Kwan, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Terence Tang, Adina Weinerman

Affiliations

¹ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Department of Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada.4University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario Canada.
⁴ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada.5Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.6Division of General Internal Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 7Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines how commonly patients hospitalized with syncope are investigated for pulmonary embolism or deep venous thrombosis in routine practice.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Observational Study

MeSH terms

Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Inpatients / statistics & numerical data
International Classification of Diseases
Male
Middle Aged
Ontario
Prevalence
Pulmonary Embolism / epidemiology*
Retrospective Studies
Syncope* / diagnosis
Syncope* / epidemiology
Syncope* / therapy
Venous Thrombosis / epidemiology*