Incidence of treated cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The incidence and incidence over time of cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients is unknown. We sought to estimate the event rate and temporal trends of adult inhospital cardiac arrest treated with a resuscitation response.

Design

Three approaches were used to estimate the inhospital cardiac arrest event rate. First approach: calculate the inhospital cardiac arrest event rate at hospitals (n = 433) in the Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation registry, years 2003-2007, and multiply this by U.S. annual bed days. Second approach: use the Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation inhospital cardiac arrest event rate to develop a regression model (including hospital demographic, geographic, and organizational factors), and use the model coefficients to calculate predicted

SUBMITTER: Merchant RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3196742 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature