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Impact Evaluation Of A Community Wide Resuscitation Training Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Edmund M. Ricci
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260, USA. Supported by NIH-NHLBI Grant HR-42965.
Catherine L. Malloy
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260, USA. Supported by NIH-NHLBI Grant HR-42965.
Peter Safar
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260, USA. Supported by NIH-NHLBI Grant HR-42965.

Extract

This study focused upon one critical condition, acute respiratory insufficiency (ARI), and the treatment patterns used before and after a training program designed to teach hospital personnel the most current methods of treating acute respiratory insufficiency. The study was a methodological investigation in which a means for collecting and analyzing data concerning the treatment of an acute health problem was developed, implemented, and assessed. It was also an attempt to evaluate the quality of treatment of ARI in a set of hospitals and to assess the extent to which a training program was able to affect the quality of treatment. Thirdly, the study was an epidemiological investigation of the extent to which ARI exists in hospital critical care units.

Type
Part I: Research-Education-Organization
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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