Title

Response: D-dimer triage for COVID-19.

Authors

Chenghong Li
Zhenguo Zhai
Bruce L Davidson, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Providence Health System, Renton, WashingtonFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-12-2020

Publication Title

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Keywords

2019-nCoV

Abstract

We thank Dr Al-Najar and colleagues for their letter(1). Our Research Letter(2) from work completed early April 2020 is intended to rapidly communicate our finding of 93% 28-day survival (95% CI, 92-95%) for a normal D-dimer on admission and 98% survival (95% CI, 96-99%) for a normal D-dimer two days later. Because we reported on 749 patients, those estimates had high precision. We chose death as a hard relevant outcome, rather than severity. 100% of patients had gold-standard PCR RNA positivity.

Department

Emergency Medicine

Department

Infectious Diseases

Department

Pulmonary Medicine

Recommended Citation

Li, Chenghong; Zhai, Zhenguo; and Davidson, Bruce L, "Response: D-dimer triage for COVID-19." (2020). Articles, Abstracts, and Reports. 3295.
https://digitalcommons.providence.org/publications/3295