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  Clinical Calculators - Wells Score for Probability of PE (Pulmonary Embolism)  
     
 

The Wells score for the probability of PE (pulmonary embolism) is a clinical prediction tool that estimates the probability of a patient with a suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) actually having a PE.

You must give information about all nine criteria in order to achieve a Wells score for probability of PE...

  Symptoms of DVT:      
    Yes  
    No  
         
  No alternative diagnosis better explains the illness:      
    Yes  
    No  
         
  Tachycardia (pulse >100):      
    Yes  
    No  
         
  Immobilization (>2 days) or surgery in the previous four weeks:      
    Yes  
    No  
         
  Previous history of DVT or PE:      
    Yes  
    No  
         
  Presence of haemoptysis:      
    Yes  
    No  
         
  Presence of malignancy:      
    Yes  
    No  
         
         
         
     
         

 
 

References

  1. Wells PS, Anderson DR, Rodger M, et. al. Derivation of a simple clinical model to categorize patients probability of pulmonary embolism: increasing the models utility with the SimpliRED D-dimer. Thromb Haemost. 2000 Mar;83(3):416-20.
 
   
   
   
 

 

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