Prehospital systolic blood pressure thresholds: A community-based outcomes study

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 597-604

  Seymour, Christopher W ^a   Cooke, Colin R ^b   Heckbert, Susan R ^c   Copass, Michael K ^c,d   Yealy, Donald M ^a   Spertus, John A ^e   Rea, Thomas D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d University of Washington ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SURVIVOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRIAGE;

EID: 84879012705     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12142     Document Type: Article

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