Shedding light into the black box of out-of-hospital respiratory distress—A retrospective cohort analysis of discharge diagnoses, prehospital diagnostic accuracy, and predictors of mortality

• Patrick Spörl ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: patrick.spoerl@outlook.de

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Aachen Institute for Rescue Management and Public Safety, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6179-9333

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• Stefan K. Beckers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Aachen Institute for Rescue Management and Public Safety, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Medical Direction, Emergency Medical Service, Aachen, Germany

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• Rolf Rossaint,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Marc Felzen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Aachen Institute for Rescue Management and Public Safety, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Medical Direction, Emergency Medical Service, Aachen, Germany

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• Hanna Schröder

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Aachen Institute for Rescue Management and Public Safety, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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