The impact of COVID‐19 on the sensitivity of D‐dimer for pulmonary embolism

This study seeks to evaluate the test characteristics of D-dimer for pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with a concurrent diagnosis of COVID-19. We hypothesized that the sensitivity of D-dimer for PE at current institutional cut points would be similar to those without COVID-19.This is a multicenter retrospective observational cohort study across five urban and suburban EDs in the same health care system. The electronic health record was...