Delays in defibrillation not explained by traditional hospital factors

Monday, July 27, 2009 - 15:35 in Health & Medicine

Traditional hospital factors -- such as case volume and academic status -- do not appear to predict whether patients with cardiac arrest at that facility are likely to experience delays in receiving defibrillation, according to a report in the July 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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