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Emerg Med J 2004;21:648
  • Letter

Emergency department investigation of deep vein thrombosis

  1. A Wakai
  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland; wakai@indigo.ie

      Kilroy et al should be commended for highlighting the difficulty of point of care (“near patient”) testing in general, and in emergency medicine in particular.1 They, however, failed to highlight some important points that may have been significant confounding variables in this study. Firstly, the authors quite rightly pointed out the qualitative nature of the SimpliRED d-dimer (DD) …

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