Developing quality indicators for the appropriateness of resuscitation in prehospital atraumatic cardiac arrest

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 434-442

  Grudzen, Corita R ^a   Liddicoat, Rebecca ^b   Hoffman, Jerome R ^a   Koenig, William ^c   Lorenz, Karl A ^a   Asch, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency medical services; Ethics; Preshospital care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HARM REDUCTION; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 34848901325     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120701536925     Document Type: Article

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