Impact of Receiving Hospital on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcome: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Texas.

ABSTRACT: Background Factors associated with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) outcome disparities remain poorly understood. We evaluated the role of receiving hospital on OHCA outcome disparities. Methods and Results We studied people with OHCA who survived to hospital admission from TX-CARES (Texas Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival), 2014 to 2021. Using census data, we stratified OHCAs into majority (>50%) strata: non-Hispanic White race and ethnicity, non-Hispanic Black race and ethnicity, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity. We stratified hospitals into performance quartiles based on the primary outcome, survival with good neurologic outcome. We evaluated the association between race and ethnicity and care at higher-performance hospitals. We compared 3 models evaluating the associatio

SUBMITTER: Huebinger R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10727382 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature