“like a rainy weather inside of me”: qualitative content analysis of telephone consultations concerning back pain preceding out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

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Cardiac arrest patients presenting with back pain are at risk of not receiving the appropriate help when calling emergency medical services. In telephone consultations regarding patients with back pain pre­ ceding an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the authors investigated how communication between caller and call-taker influenced the call-taker`s interpretation of back pain descriptions and decision-making about choice of response. Two main categories emerged: reasons, including subcategories: reported conditions, descriptions of conditions, patient`s interpretation of condition and patient`s own remedial actions; and_(2) considerations, including subcategories: assessment of . . .

 



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