A failed attempt to improve quality of out-of-hospital CPR through performance evaluation

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 427-433

  Olasveengen, Theresa Mariero ^a   Tomlinson, Ann Elin ^a   Wik, Lars ^a   Sunde, Kjetil ^a   Steen, Petter Andreas ^a,b   Myklebust, Helge ^c   Kramer Johansen, Jo ^a,d  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Laerdal Medical AS   (Norway)

^d DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Norway)

Author keywords

Advanced cardiac life support; Ambulances; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency medical services; Guideline adherence; Heart arrest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 34848914317     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120701536628     Document Type: Article

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