OSHA Monitoring NIH External Defibrillator Study, Circulates “Fact Card”
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration will weigh results from a NIH study in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of options such as the American Heart Association's proposed public access defibrillation (PAD) program
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