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YEARS Score
Aka: YEARS Score, YEARS Algorithm- See Also
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis
- Pulmonary Embolism Pretest Probability (Wells Clinical Prediction Rule for PE)
- Pulmonary Embolism Low Probability Evaluation
- Pulmonary Embolism Moderate Probability Evaluation
- Pulmonary Embolism High Probability Evaluation
- Wells Clinical Prediction Rule for PE
- PERC Rule
- Indications
- Pulmonary Embolism evaluation with D-Dimer
- YEARS Score is used to modify the D-Dimer cut-off (0.5 to 1.0)
- Pulmonary Embolism evaluation with D-Dimer
- Criteria: Assign one point for each of three positive criteria
- Clinical evidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- Hemoptysis
- Pulmonary Embolism most likely cause on differential diagnosis
- Interpretation
- Efficacy
- Safely and significantly reduces the use of CT Pulmonary Angiography
- References
- Arora and Menchine in Herbert (2017) EM:Rap 17(12):20-1