Long-term outcomes in elderly survivors of in-hospital cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the long-term outcomes in elderly survivors of in-hospital cardiac arrest. We determined rates of long-term survival and readmission among survivors of in-hospital cardiac arrest and examined whether these outcomes differed according to demographic characteristics and neurologic status at discharge.

Methods

We linked data from a national registry of inpatient cardiac arrests with Medicare files and identified 6972 adults, 65 years of age or older, who were discharged from the hospital after surviving an in-hospital cardiac arrest between 2000 and 2008. Predictors of 1-year survival and of readmission to the hospital were examined.

Results

One year after hospital discharge, 58.5% of the patients were alive, and 34.4% had not been readmi

SUBMITTER: Chan PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3652256 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature