Abstract:This study aimed to compare the clinical burden and healthcare utilization outcomes of hematologic versus solid malignancies in patients hospitalized with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). This population-based, retrospective study extracted and analyzed the discharge data from the 2016-2018 US National Inpatient Sample (NIS) of hospitalized patients with a primary diagnosis of acute PE and a subsequent diagnosis of hematologic malignancies or solid tumors. Prolonged length-of-stay (LOS) was defined as ! 75th per… Show more
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