Improving use of targeted temperature management after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 954-964

  Morrison, Laurie J ^a,b,c   Brooks, Steven C ^a,d   Dainty, Katie N ^a,c   Dorian, Paul ^e   Needham, Dale M ^f   Ferguson, Niall D ^b,c,g   Rubenfeld, Gordon D ^b,h,i   Slutsky, Arthur S ^a,b   Wax, Randy S ^b,d,j   Zwarenstein, Merrick ^k   Thorpe, Kevin ^a,l   Zhan, Cathy ^a   Scales, Damon C ^b,h,i,j  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^h SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

ⁱ LAKERIDGE HEALTH CORPORATION   (Canada)

^j Institute of Clinical and Evaluative Sciences   (Canada)

^k WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Author keywords

cluster randomized trial; critical care; emergency medicine; knowledge translation; out of hospital cardiac arrest; quality improvement; targeted temperature management; therapeutic hypothermia

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SURVIVAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREND STUDY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST;

AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84932148852     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000864     Document Type: Article

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