Relationship between knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines and performance

Resuscitation

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 253-261

  Brown, Todd B ^a   Dias, Johnny A ^a   Saini, Devashish ^a   Shah, Reesha C ^a   Cofield, Stacey S ^a   Terndrup, Thomas E ^a   Kaslow, Richard A ^a   Waterbor, John W ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; CPR; EMS; Prehospital

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION MODEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33646128934     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2005.08.019     Document Type: Article

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