Research Article

Pulmonary Embolism in Pneumonia: Still a Diagnostic Challenge? Results of a Case-Control Study in 100 Patients

Table 6

Results on AIC from the multiple conditional logistic regression models.

ModelIncluded variablesAIC

()D-dimer54.15
()D-dimer and other symptoms55.76
()D-dimer and chest pain53.10
()D-dimer and consolidation51.54
()D-dimer and fever55.33
()D-dimer, other symptoms, and chest pain55.69
()D-dimer, other symptoms, and consolidation53.43
()D-dimer, chest pain, and consolidation51.79
()D-dimer, other symptoms, chest pain, and consolidation54.20

AIC: Akaike information criterion.