Medical emergency teams and cardiac arrests in hospital

Buist et al's paper fails to take this into account, and suffers from other methodological errors too. 1 The study used a historical control group and was undertaken in a setting in which there was already a trend towards a reduced incidence of and mortality from cardiac arrest. [...]the case m...

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Published inBMJ Vol. 324; no. 7347; pp. 1215 - 1216
Main Authors Smith, Gary B., Nolan, Jerry, King, Andrew, Pockney, Peter, Nielsen, Mick, Coombes, Maureen, Bailey, Ian, Clancy, Mike, Buist, Michael, Moore, Gaye, Bernard, Stephen, Waxman, Bruce, Nguyen, Tuan, Anderson, Jeremy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London British Medical Association 18.05.2002
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
Subjects
Cardiac arrest
Do not resuscitate
Education
Emergency medical care
Health outcomes
Hospitals
Intensive care
Intensive care units
Intervention
Letters
Medical specialists
Mortality
Nurses
Physiology
Resuscitation
Resuscitation orders
Right to die
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Summary:Buist et al's paper fails to take this into account, and suffers from other methodological errors too. 1 The study used a historical control group and was undertaken in a setting in which there was already a trend towards a reduced incidence of and mortality from cardiac arrest. [...]the case mix varied considerably between the two study periods. [...]most of the increase in planned admissions arose through better management of the "others" category (mostly direct admissions from private specialists), which reduced dramatically over the study period.
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.324.7347.1215/a