Racial differences in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival and treatment

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 415-419

  Wilde, Elizabeth Ty ^a   Robbins, Lindsay Speros ^a   Pressley, Joyce C ^a  

^a Department of Health Policy and Management ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84860226228     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2010.109736     Document Type: Article

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