Resuscitation
Volume 80, Issue 5 , Pages 529-534 , May 2009

Short-term health system costs of paediatric in-hospital acute life-threatening events including cardiac arrest

  • H.P. Duncan

      Affiliations

    • Paediatric Intensive Care, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • E. Frew

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Economics, HSMC, Park House, 40 Edgbaston Park Road, University of Birmingham, B15 2RT, United Kingdom

Received 31 December 2007 ,Revised 18 February 2009 ,Accepted 23 February 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the summary of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.02.018.

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doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.02.018

Resuscitation
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