Apples to apples: can differences in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence and outcomes between Sweden and Ireland be explained by core Utstein variables?

Apples to apples: can differences in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence and outcomes between Sweden and Ireland be explained by core Utstein variables?

Abstract Background Variation in reported incidence and outcome based on aggregated data is a persistent feature of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) epidemiology. Objective To investigate the extent to which patient-level analysis using core ‘Utstein’ variables explains inter-country variation...

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Main Authors: Siobhán Masterson, Anneli Strömsöe, John Cullinan, Conor Deasy, Akke Vellinga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Utstein
incidence
outcomes
pre-hospital resuscitation
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13049-018-0505-2

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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13049-018-0505-2

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