Physician presence in an ambulance car is associated with increased survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A prospective cohort analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hagihara, Akihito ^a   Hasegawa, Manabu ^b   Abe, Takeru ^c   Nagata, Takashi ^d   Nabeshima, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN PRESENCE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AMBULANCES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84897144708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084424     Document Type: Article

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