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ArticleScandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine2016

Physician presence at out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is not necessarily the cause of improved survival.

Pieter Francsois Fouche, Paul Andrew Jennings

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Article in Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Pieter Francsois FoucheDepartment of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice, Monash University, Building H McMahons Road, Frankston, Melbourne, 3199, Australia. PFOUCHE@ambulance.nsw.gov.au.
Paul Andrew JenningsDepartment of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice, Monash University, Building H McMahons Road, Frankston, Melbourne, 3199, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A recent publication Hiltunen et al. on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) in Finland show increased survival when a physician attends an OHCA, compared to EMS. But it is likely that physicians attend OHCA patients with a different prognosis due to comorbidity or illness severity, which causes confounding by indication and is the likely cause for the physician and survival association.

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Emergency Medical ServicesRegistriesCardiopulmonary ResuscitationFinlandHumansOut-of-Hospital Cardiac ArrestPrognosisSurvival RateCardiac arrestConfoundingOut-of-hospital

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PMID27377934
PMCPMC4932696

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