Surviving out of hospital cardiac arrest at home: A postcode lottery?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 619-624

  Lyon, Richard M ^a   Cobbe, S M ^b   Bradley, J M ^b   Grubb, N R ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART ARREST; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AMBULANCES; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4544244998     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2003.010363     Document Type: Article

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