A nationwide survey of CPR training in Sweden: Foreign born and unemployed are not reached by training programmes

Resuscitation

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-97

  Axelsson, Åsa B ^a   Herlitz, Johan ^b   Holmberg, Stig ^b   Thorén, Ann Britt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bystander CPR; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); Education; Out of hospital CPR; Survey; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARMY; ARTICLE; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESUSCITATION; RURAL AREA; STUDENT; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, NONPROFESSIONAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 33745166908     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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