The article Wells Rule Does Not Safely Exclude Deep Venous Thrombosis in Some Patients was mistakenly published with a missing word and a misspelled word.
The blurb has now been amended to read as follows (addition in italics):
“A meta-analysis suggests the combination of a Wells score ≤ 1 and a negative D-dimer result should not be used to rule out DVT in patients with active cancer or history of DVT.”
The third sentence in the second paragraph has been corrected to read as follows (corrected word in italics):
“However, among patients with cancer, only 9% had a Wells score ≤ 1 and a negative D-dimer result, and their probability of DVT was 2.2%, making this strategy neither safe nor efficient for excluding DVT.”
We apologize to our readers.