Survival and health care costs until hospital discharge of patients treated with onsite, dispatched or without automated external defibrillator

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 962-967

  Berdowski, Jocelyn ^a   Kuiper, Mathijs J ^a   Dijkgraaf, Marcel G W ^a   Tijssen, Jan G P ^a   Koster, Rudolph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator (AED)*Emergency medical services*Cost*Out of hospital CPR*Outcome; Cardiac arrest; Defibrillation; Europe; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; AUTOMATION; CARDIOVERSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

AGED; AUTOMATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77954761298     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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