Changing cardiac arrest and hospital mortality rates through a medical emergency team takes time and constant review

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 445-450

  Santamaria, John ^a   Tobin, Antony ^a   Holmes, Jennifer ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency service; Heart arrest; Hospital; Hospital mortality; Intensive care units; Outcome and process assessment (health care); Patient care team

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 74949105311     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181cb0ff1     Document Type: Article

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