Chronic health conditions and survival after out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 728-731

  Carew, Heather T ^b   Zhang, Weiya ^b   Rea, Thomas D ^a,b  

^a Emergency Medical Services Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 34249301413     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.103895     Document Type: Article

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