Percentage of emergency department visits during which patients aged 18 years and older had a CT pulmonary angiogram (CTPA) ordered by an emergency care provider, regardless of discharge disposition, with either moderate or high pre-test clinical probability for pulmonary embolism OR positive result or elevated D-dimer level
eMeasure ID
First Performance Year
2017
Last Performance Year
Metric Type
Single Performance Rate
National Quality Strategy Domain
Efficiency and Cost Reduction
Measure Type
Process
eMeasure UUID
NQF eMeasure ID
NQF ID
Is High Priority?
Is Inverse?
Overall Algorithm
Primary Steward
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR)