AED INEQUITY AMONG SOCIAL GROUPS IN GUANGZHOU

AED Inequity among Social Groups in Guangzhou

Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are regarded as the most important public facility after fire extinguishers due to their importance to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) victims.Previous studies focused on the location optimization of the AED, with little attention to inequity among different social groups.To comprehensively investigate

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FTO5/470: Critical Incident Monitoring in Emergency Medicine Web-based System (CRIME-base): Current evidence on incident reporting and its impact to quality of care

IntroductionA critical incident is "any event which is inconsistent with routine hospital practice or with the quality of patient care and which has or could have had a demonstrably adverse outcome for a particular patient" (J.A.Williamson, Critical Incident Reporting in Anaesthesia.Anaesthetic Intensive Care, 1988: 16: 101-103).Such "negative inci

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