1. A comparative study of the incidence of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Monday–Wednesday and Thursday–Sunday
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Oh, Tak Kyu, Park, Young Mi, Do, Sang-Hwan, Hwang, Jung-Won, Jo, You Hwan, Kim, Jin Hee, Jeon, Young-Tae, and Song, In-Ae
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Adult ,Male ,Emergency Medical Services ,Time Factors ,Incidence ,resuscitation ,Personnel Staffing and Scheduling ,Observational Study ,Middle Aged ,cardiopulmonary resuscitation ,Heart Arrest ,critical care ,Tertiary Care Centers ,Republic of Korea ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,Humans ,Female ,hospitals ,Alert Fatigue, Health Personnel ,Research Article ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies - Abstract
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text, Because most medical staff work from Monday–Friday, it is possible that they are relatively more fatigued and less capable of providing emergency supportive services on Thursday–Sunday (Thu–Sun) than on Monday–Wednesday (Mon–Wed). In this study, we aimed to analyze the incidence of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to determine if it differed between Thu–Sun and Mon–Wed. This retrospective observational study of in-hospital CPR was performed during 2012 to 2016 among inpatients at the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. The primary outcome was the incidence of in-hospital CPR per 1000 inpatients in the Mon–Wed and Thu–Sun periods. Secondary outcomes included differences in the CPR incidence by time of day and season. In the study, 1195 cases of in-hospital CPR were included. The incidence of in-hospital CPR per 1000 inpatients was significantly higher on Thu–Sun (mean: 0.595, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.564–0.626) than on Mon–Wed (mean: 0.505, 95% CI: 0.474–0.536, P
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- 2018