Apples to apples or apples to oranges? International variation in reporting of process and outcome of care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Objectives: Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) varies between communities, due in part to variation in the methods of measurement. The Utstein template was disseminated to standardize comparisons of risk factors, quality of care, and outcomes in patients with OHCA. We sought to ass...

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Main Authors: Nishiyama, C., Brown, S., May, S., Iwami, T., Koster, R., Beesems, S., Kuisma, M., Salo, A., Jacobs, Ian, Finn, Judith, Sterz, F., Nurnberger, A., Smith, K., Morrison, L., Olasveengen, T., Callaway, C., Shin, S., Grasner, J., Mohamud, D., Ma, M., Herlitz, J., Strömsöe, A., Aufderheide, T., Masterson, S., Wang, H., Christenson, J., Stiell, I., Davis, D., Huszti, E., Nichol, G.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37671