A national analysis of the relationship between hospital factors and post-cardiac arrest mortality

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 505-511

  Carr, Brendan G ^a   Goyal, Munish ^a,b   Band, Roger A ^a   Gaieski, David F ^a,b   Abella, Benjamin S ^a,b   Merchant, Raina M ^a,b   Branas, Charles C ^a   Becker, Lance B ^a,b   Neumar, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; REGIONALIZATION; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60449103097     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1335-x     Document Type: Article

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