Implementation of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest-a telephone survey of connecticut hospitals

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 203-206

  Kremens, Karol ^a   Seevaratnam, Andrew ^b   Fine, Jonathan ^b   Wakefield, Dorothy B ^c   Berman, Lewis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b NORWALK HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONNECTICUT; HEART ARREST; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; LOGISTIC MODELS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STANDARD OF CARE; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955103869     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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