Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 530-533 , May 2010

Two simple questions to assess neurologic outcomes at 3 months after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Experience from the Public Access Defibrillation Trial

  • W.T. Longstreth Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
    • Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Neurology, Box 359775, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104-2420, United States. Tel.: +1 206 744 3251; fax: +1 206 744 8787.
    • ,
  • Graham Nichol

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
    • Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
    • ,
  • Lois Van Ottingham

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
    • ,
  • Alfred P. Hallstrom

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

Received 3 September 2009 ,Revised 13 January 2010 ,Accepted 18 January 2010.

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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.2010.01.011.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00053-5

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.01.011

Resuscitation
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