Interrater variability of EEG interpretation in comatose cardiac arrest patients

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2397-2404

  Westhall, Erik ^a   Rosén, Ingmar ^a   Rossetti, Andrea O ^b   van Rootselaar, Anne Fleur ^c   Wesenberg Kjaer, Troels ^d,g   Friberg, Hans ^a   Horn, Janneke ^c   Nielsen, Niklas ^e   Ullén, Susann ^f   Cronberg, Tobias ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^e HELSINGBORG HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g ROSKILDE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Cardiac arrest; EEG; Hypothermia; Interrater variability; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMATOSE PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMA; HEART ARREST; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STANDARDS;

AGED; COMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 84948712828     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.03.017     Document Type: Article

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