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A 56-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis presents with a 2-week history of increasing shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. She is tachycardic, mildly hypoxic and has a swollen left calf. Wells score suggests likely PE. She is haemodynamically stable. What is the most appropriate initial investigation in hospital?

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