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<p>Predicts 30-day outcome of patients with pulmonary embolism using 11 clinical criteria.</p>

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<p>Benjamin H. Slovis, MD, MA, is an emergency medicine physician and informatician in the department of emergency medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. A native of New Jersey, Dr. Slovis attended Cornell University for his undergraduate studies and received his MD from UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He completed his residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a National Library of Medicine Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship with a masters degree from the department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. His research interests include clinical decision support systems, health-information exchange, and medical education.</p>

Benjamin Slovis, MD

The Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) predicts 30-day outcome of patients with pulmonary embolism using 11 clinical criteria.

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