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A 46-year-old man presents with pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea. His Wells score for pulmonary embolism is low, but he has no clinical signs of DVT, heart rate is 84 beats per minute, oxygen saturation is 99 percent, and he has no haemoptysis, recent surgery or history of VTE. According to validated Canadian approaches, what is the most appropriate next step?

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