Comprehensive Outpatient Management of Low-Risk Pulmonary Embolism: Can Primary Care Do This? A Narrative Review.

ABSTRACT: The evidence for outpatient management of hemodynamically stable, low-risk patients with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism (PE) is mounting. Guidance in identifying patients who are eligible for outpatient (ambulatory) care is available in the literature and society guidelines. Less is known about who can identify patients eligible for outpatient management and in what clinical practice settings. To answer the question, "Can primary care do this?" (provide comprehensive outpatient management of low-risk PE). We undertook a narrative review of the literature on the outpatient management of acute PE focusing on site of care. We searched the English-language literature in PubMed and Embase from January 1, 1950, through July 15, 2019. We identified 26 eligible studies. We found no studies t

SUBMITTER: Vinson DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7089595 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature