Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 8 , Pages 962-967 , August 2010

Survival and health care costs until hospital discharge of patients treated with onsite, dispatched or without automated external defibrillator

  • Jocelyn Berdowski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Centre – University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Centre – University of Amsterdam, Room F3-241, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 20 5665969; fax: +31 20 5669248.
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  • Mathijs J. Kuiper

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Centre – University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Marcel G.W. Dijkgraaf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Centre – University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Jan G.P. Tijssen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Centre – University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Rudolph W. Koster

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Centre – University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Received 9 December 2009 ,Revised 10 March 2010 ,Accepted 13 April 2010.

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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.2010.04.013.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00241-8

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.04.013

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