The clinical probability predicted by pisamodels can be used by the physicians as the pretest probability in calculating the post-test probability of pulmonary embolism after appropriate objective testing.
Examples are given in Figures a through c which show the relationship between pretest probability and post-test probability of pulmonary embolism conditioned by the results of (a) quantitative D-dimer test, (b) computed tomographic angiography (CTA), and (c) perfusion lung scintigraphy.
For D-dimer test, we used a weighted sensitivity of 98% and a weighted specificity of 40% as from a recent review¹; for CTA, a sensitivity of 83% and a specificity of 96% as from PIOPED II study²; for perfusion lung scintigraphy, a sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of 93% as from PISAPED study³.

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