The presence of a family witness impacts physician performance during simulated medical codes

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1956-1960

  Fernandez, Rosemarie ^a   Compton, Scott ^b   Jones, Kerin A ^a   Velilla, Marc Anthony ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced cardiovascular life support; End of life care; Family witness; Resuscitation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TERMINAL CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FAMILY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIANS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 66449113119     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181a00818     Document Type: Article

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