Linked Life Data

1247777

Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/id/1247777

Statements in which the resource exists as a subject.
PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6003
pubmed:dateCreated
1976-4-15
pubmed:abstractText
All patients brought to hospital by a special cardiac ambulance were followed up and compared with patients carried by routine ambulances to assess the effectiveness of a cardiac ambulance service. The overall mortality of patients with heart attacks was 51% among those carried by an ordinary ambulance and 40% among those carried by the cardiac ambulance. The apparently low mortality in the latter group was balanced, however, by a high mortality (68%) among patients carried by ordinary ambulances when the cardiac ambulance was available but not used; these patients tended to have a short duration of symptoms and heart attacks away from home, and their ambulance was more often called by a member of the public than a general practitioner. It seems therefore that low-risk cases were inadvertently selected for transport by the cardiac ambulance; such unintentional selection makes it difficult to evaluate a cardiac ambulance service.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0007-1447
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
24
pubmed:volume
1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
201-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1976
pubmed:articleTitle
Importance of patient selection in evaluating a cardiac ambulance service.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Controlled Clinical Trial