Association between a hospital's rate of cardiac arrest incidence and cardiac arrest survival.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

National efforts to measure hospital performance in treating cardiac arrest have focused on case survival, with the hope of improving survival after cardiac arrest. However, it is plausible that hospitals with high case-survival rates do a poor job of preventing cardiac arrests in the first place.

Objective

To describe the association between inpatient cardiac arrest incidence and survival rates.

Design

Within a large, national registry, we identified hospitals with at least 50 adult in-hospital cardiac arrest cases between January 1, 2000, and November 30, 2009. We used multivariable hierarchical regression to evaluate the correlation between a hospital's cardiac arrest incidence rate and its case-survival rate after adjusting for patient and hospital char

SUBMITTER: Chen LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4181325 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature