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Incidence, location and reasons for avoidable in-hospital cardiac arrest in a district general hospital
Hodgetts TJ, Kenward G, Vlackonikolis I, et al.  Incidence, location and reasons for avoidable in-hospital cardiac arrest in a district general hospital.  Resuscitation. 2002;54(2):115-123.

Expert panel review of case-notes from 139 consecutive adult in-hospital cardiac arrests over one year. The majority were felt to be potentially avoidable and the panel judged that 100 percent of this majority received inadequate prior treatment. 



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