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Ethnic Differences in Out-of-Hospital Fatal Pulmonary Embolism
Author(s) -
Yingying Tang,
Barbara A. Sampson,
Stephanie Pack,
Krunal Shah,
Sung Yon Um,
Dawei Wang,
Tao Wang,
Mechthild Prinz
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.110.976134
Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , pulmonary embolism , embolism , cardiology , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , emergency medicine , anthropology , sociology
In-hospital pulmonary embolism (PE) has been extensively studied in large populations; however, out-of-hospital fatal PE studies are rare. Here, we systematically evaluated a large number of decedents who suffered fatal PE outside of hospitals and were subsequently investigated by the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner.

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