Monitoring intervention programmes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a mixed urban and rural setting

Resuscitation

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 180-187

  Fabbri, Andrea ^a   Marchesini, Giulio ^b   Spada, Marco ^a   Iervese, Tiziana ^a   Dente, Massimo ^a   Galvani, Marcello ^c   Vandelli, Alberto ^a  

^a Dipartimento dell'Emergenza   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Serv di Anat e Istol Patologica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Outcome predictors; Resuscitation; Survival; Witnessed cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RURAL AREA; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN AREA; VOLUNTEER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COHORT STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33750147091     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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