Race, Ethnicity, Insurance Payer, and Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Survival.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Lower survival rates among Black adults relative to White adults after in-hospital cardiac arrest are well-described, but these findings have not been consistently replicated in pediatric studies.

Objective

To use a large, national, population-based inpatient database to evaluate the associations between in-hospital mortality in children receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and patient race or ethnicity, patient insurance status, and the treating hospital's proportion of Black and publicly insured patients.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective population-based cohort study used the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database (1997-2019 triennial versions). Participants included pediatric inpatients (aged <18 yea

SUBMITTER: O'Halloran AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12423836 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature