Non-medical factors in prehospital resuscitation decision-making: a mixed-methods systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

This systematic review explored how non-medical factors influence the prehospital resuscitation providers' decisions whether or not to resuscitate adult patients with cardiac arrest.

Methods

We conducted a mixed-methods systematic review with a narrative synthesis and searched for original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies on non-medical factors influencing resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Mixed-method reviews combine qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies to answer complex multidisciplinary questions. Our inclusion criteria were peer-reviewed empirical-based studies concerning decision-making in prehospital resuscitation of adults > 18 years combined with non-medical factors. We excluded commentaries, case reports, editori

SUBMITTER: Milling L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8962561 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature