Meta-Analysis: Outcomes in Patients with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism Managed with Computed Tomographic Pulmonary Angiography

View larger version (29K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Flow diagram of study selection. CTPA = computed tomographic pulmonary angiography; PE = pulmonary embolism.

View larger version (24K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Forest plots of total venous thromboembolism (VTE) events (top) and fatal pulmonary embolism (PE) events (bottom). The number of patients for each study is the number of patients eligible for outcome assessment, and the event rates are a combination of recurrent VTE and fatal PE (see Table). Values in parentheses on the right-hand side of the figure are the upper bound of the CI unless otherwise indicated.