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Temporal trends in hospital-recorded pulmonary embolism in England before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic (2008–2024): a population-based observational study.
Zhong X. The Lancet Regional Health – Europe 2025;:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2025.101433.
[Whilst incidence of hospital-recorded pulmonary embolism spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, rates have since returned to levels observed prior to the pandemic. Ongoing monitoring of PE incidence by healthcare setting is important to undertake while clinical practice and policy on PE management pathways evolve, since it helps to support care planning; it also informs data-enabled clinical trials where PE is an outcome as well as the design of observational studies.]
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Conditions and Lifestyle Factors
Coronavirus Infections
Pandemics
Pulmonary Embolism
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