Guidelines for the uniform reporting of data for Medical Emergency Teams

Resuscitation

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-25

  Cretikos, Michelle ^a,b   Parr, Michael ^a,b,c,d   Hillman, Ken ^a,b,c,d   Bishop, Gillian ^c   Brown, Daniel ^b   Daffurn, Kathy ^a,b,c   Dinh, Hanh ^d   Francis, Nevenka ^c,d   Heath, Tracy ^d   Hill, Grant ^d   Murphy, Jeff ^d   Sanchez, David ^d   Santiano, Nancy ^b,d   Young, Lis ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Simpson Centre for Health Service Research   (Australia)

^c LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data collection; Definitions; Heart arrest; Medical Emergency Team; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 30144436197     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2005.06.009     Document Type: Article

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