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Among the several validated clinical decision rules that exist to help clinicians rule out pulmonary embolism (PE), the Wells criteria and the Geneva score are the most extensively studied. Recently, a revised Geneva score with eight objective clinical items, each assigned individual weighted scores, was validated (JW Emerg Med Mar 28 2006). Researchers hypothesized that a simpler version of the revised Geneva score, in which 1 point is assigned to each of the eight variables, would retain its diagnostic accuracy and clinical usefulness (Table 1).
The simplified revised Geneva scoring system was applied retrospectively to data from two separate European studies, and the resulting category assignments were compared with those yielded by the r…
