Overuse of Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Thromboembolism “Real-Life Data”

Preventing overuse of CTPA by evaluating clinical probability scores, PERC criteria and d-dimer levels is important in many ways. Prevention of overuse of CTPA use will reduce unnecessary workload in clinical functioning and provide financial gain. Although CTPA is a diagnostic method with high diagnostic accuracy in the diagnosis of PTE, it is overused in real life. The overuse of CTPA can be significantly reduced by the combined use of clinical probability scoring (Wells and Geneva), exclusion criteria (PERC) and d-dimer results.