Saturday, April 5, 2008

Saturday April 5, 2008
Geneva Score for suspected pulmonary embolism (PE)

The Geneva pre-test probability score is intend to replace empirical assessment of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE).

To note that literature is still raw in testing the effect of clinical experience on the inter-rater variability of Geneva as well as other scores (like PESI or Wells pre-test probability score) , and on empirical judgement, is unknown.


Total score:


  • less than 5 indicates a low probability of PE
  • 5–8 indicates a moderate probability of PE
  • more than 8 indicates a high probability of PE



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References: click to get article

1. Assessing clinical probability of pulmonary embolism in the emergency ward: a simple score: Arch Intern Med 2001; 161:92–97.