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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Main Authors: Markus Petersen, Fredderick Georg Kjeldtoft, Erika Frischknecht Christensen, Henrik Bøggild, Tim Alex Lindskou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-12-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-023-01171-0