Health system costs of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in relation to time to shock

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1967-1973

  Van Alem, Anouk P ^a   Dijkgraaf, Marcel G W ^a   Tijssen, Jan G P ^a   Koster, Rudolph W ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Defibrillation; Heart arrest; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONEY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; STANDARD; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY CARE UNITS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATORS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 4944221560     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000143150.13727.19     Document Type: Article

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