Recommended guidelines for uniform reporting of data on out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: the "Utstein style"
Recommended guidelines for uniform reporting of data on out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: the "Utstein style"
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院外心脏骤停数据统一报告的推荐指南:“Utstein 风格”
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发表时间:
1991
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通讯作者:
Swan Rw
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作者:
Swan Rw
C ardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has become an important, multidisciplinary branch of medicine. Numerous skills, specialties and organizations are involved in its delivery. Despite this, CPR, particularly CPR research, has suffered because of the lack of consistent terminology for reporting outcomes, which has meant that data from different systems and different countries cannot be compared. Accordingly, representatives from the American Heart Association, the Australian Resuscitation Council, the European Resuscitation Council and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada met to establish a consensus on uniform terms and definitions for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. In June 1990 the group's first meeting was held at Utstein Abbey, on a small island off the coast of Norway. Participants discussed the nomenclature and reporting problems and the lack of a standardized language or format in the research literature. At a second meeting, in December 1990, in Surrey, England, the delegates agreed to call their deliberations the Utstein Consensus Conference. The recommendations made' were designed to promote effective exchange of information and to improve international auditing and quality assurance in CPR research. It was suggested that this format of reporting CPR outcomes be known as the "Utstein style." The Utstein style, which is analogous to the "Vancouver style" of uniform requirements for submissions to biomedical journals,2 should benefit manuscripts on cardiac resuscitation that are to be considered for publication. Documented differences in survival rates in different cities and countries3 will no longer remain unexplained because of inconsistent and obscure terminology. The effect of system organization and of differences in treatment protocols or the skill levels of the attending personnel will be separable.4 The Utstein style guidelines will enable researchers, clinicians and emergency care managers to identify the relative benefits of different systems in the treatment of sudden cardiac arrest. System managers will be able to plan for the addition and evaluation of new components, such as communitywide CPR programs and automatic external defibrillators.5 Health care resource managers will be able to examine the effect on survival and the economy of the widespread use of paramedics and, to a lesser extent, ambulance doctors.6-8 The consensus conference participants recommend a template approach to reporting outcome data on cardiac arrest. The template begins with the population served by the emergency medical services (EMS) and displays how various exit points narrow the focus to patients who have experienced an arrest attributable to cardiac causes (Fig. 1). The template then displays how this group progressively decreases in size until it represents only the patients who are alive 1 year later. A specific number must be inserted at each level of the template; this number
DOI:
10.1016/0002-9149(90)91285-e
发表时间:
1990
期刊:
The American journal of cardiology
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作者:
Greene,HL
通讯作者:
Greene,HL