Rationale and design of the Home Automatic External Defibrillator Trial (HAT)

American Heart Journal

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 445-454

  Bardy, Gust H ^a   Lee, Kerry L ^b   Mark, Daniel B ^b   Poole, Jeanne E ^a,d   Toff, William D ^h   Tonkin, Andrew M ^f   Smith, Warren ^g   Dorian, Paul ⁱ   Yallop, Julie J ^f,g   Packer, Douglas L ^e   White, Roger D ^e   Longstreth, Will ^d   Anderson, Jill ^a   Johnson, George ^a   Bischoff, Eric ^a   Munkers, Crystal D ^a   Brown, Amanda ^a   McNulty, Steven ^b   Ray, Linda Davidson ^b   Clapp Channing, Nancy E ^b   Rosenberg, Yves ^c   Salive, Marcel ^c   Schron, Eleanor B ^c   more..

^a Seattle Institute for Cardiac Research   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g Auckland City Hospital   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 39249085617     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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