Variability in cardiac arrest survival: The NHS Ambulance Service Quality Indicators

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-5

  Perkins, Gavin D ^a   Cooke, Matthew W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AMBULANCES; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84455199764     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2011-200758     Document Type: Note

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