Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 3 , Pages 312-316 , March 2010

Critical incidents related to cardiac arrests reported to the Danish Patient Safety Database

  • Peter Oluf Andersen

      Affiliations

    • Danish Institute for Medical Simulation, Herlev Hospital, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
    • University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Danish Institute for Medical Simulation, Herlev Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, DK 2730 Herlev, Denmark.
    • ,
  • Rikke Maaløe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
    • University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    • ,
  • Henning B. Andersen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Received 20 August 2009 ,Revised 14 October 2009 ,Accepted 18 October 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.10.018.

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doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.10.018

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 3 , Pages 312-316 , March 2010

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