Inter-rater reliability and comfort in the application of a basic life support termination of resuscitation clinical prediction rule for out of hospital cardiac arrest

Resuscitation

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 150-157

  Morrison, Laurie J ^a,b,c,d   Visentin, Laura M ^a   Vermeulen, Marian ^a,d   Kiss, Alex ^a,d   Theriault, Robert ^e   Eby, Don ^f   Sherbino, Jonathan ^c   Verbeek, Richard ^c,e  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences   (Canada)

^e Sunnybrook Osler Centre For Prehospital Care   (Canada)

^f Owen Sound Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basic life support (BLS); Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Clinical decision rule; Emergency medical services; Medical ethics; Out of hospital cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC LIFE SUPPORT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EUTHANASIA; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LONG TERM CARE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RURAL POPULATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS;

EID: 34250022753     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.10.030     Document Type: Article

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