A classification system for identifying patients dead on ambulance arrival: a prehospital medical record review
Abstract Background Patients dead before arrival of the ambulance or before arrival at hospital may be in- or excluded in mortality analyses, making comparison of mortality difficult. Often only physicians are allowed to declare death, thereby impeding uniform registration of prehospital death. Many...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-12-01
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Series: | Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-023-01171-0 |