Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 3 , Pages 249-257 , March 2010

Predicting Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Role of the Utstein Data Elements

Presented as an abstract at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Orlando, FL, November 2007.

  • Thomas D. Rea, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Thomas Rea, MD, MPH, University of Washington, Department of Medicine, 401 5th Avenue, Suite1200, Seattle, WA; 206-255-5513, fax 206-296-4866
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  • Andrea J. Cook, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    • Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA
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  • Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Judy Powell, BSN

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    • ,
  • Blair Bigham, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Clifton W. Callaway, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Sumeet Chugh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
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  • Tom P. Aufderheide, MD

      Affiliations

    • Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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  • Laurie Morrison, MD

      Affiliations

    • Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Thomas E. Terndrup, MD

      Affiliations

    • Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
    • ,
  • Tammy Beaudoin, CHIM

      Affiliations

    • University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  • Lynn Wittwer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Southwest Washington Medical Center, Vancouver, WA
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  • Dan Davis, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
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  • Ahamed Idris, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
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  • Graham Nichol, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    • ,
  • Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Investigators

Received 23 April 2009 ,Revised 2 September 2009 ,Accepted 18 September 2009.

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 Supervising editor: Amy H. Kaji, MD, PhD, MPH

 Author contributions: TDR conceived the study. TDR and AJC designed the study. TDR, IGS, JP, BB, CWC, SC, TPA, LM, TET, TB, LW, DD, AI, and GN were responsible for data collection. AJC, JP, and GN managed the data. AJC provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data. TDR drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. TDR takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. This study was supported by a series of cooperative agreements to 10 regional centers and 1 data coordinating center (5U01 HL077863, HL077881, HL077871, HL077872, HL077866, HL077908, HL077867, HL077885, HL077887, HL077873, HL077865) with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in partnership with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, US Army Research and Materiel Command, The Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health, Defense Research and Development Canada, American Heart Association, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

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 Publication date: Available online November 27, 2009.

PII: S0196-0644(09)01556-X

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.09.018

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 3 , Pages 249-257 , March 2010

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