Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 5 , Pages 633-638 , May 2009

Admission D-dimer Can Identify Low-Risk Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Received 22 September 2008 ,Revised 6 December 2008 ,Accepted 16 December 2008.

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 Supervising editor: Donald M. Yealy, MD

 Author contributions: JDC and ATH contributed to the design of the study. JDC and ATH wrote the article. JDC, AS, and CS contributed to collection and analysis of the data. ATH initiated the study. JDC and ATH performed the statistical analysis. JDC takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Dr. Chalmers is supported by a Clinical Research Fellowship from the Medical Research Council.

 Publication date: Available online February 7, 2009.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(08)02121-5

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.12.022

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 5 , Pages 633-638 , May 2009

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