Overcoming challenges of establishing a hospital-based out-of-hospital cardiac arrest registry: accuracy of case identification using administrative data and clinical registries.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Comprehensive identification of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases for inclusion in registries remains challenging due to the inherent diversity of OHCA aetiology, presentation, and management. The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) OHCA registry identifies OHCAs presenting to NALHN hospitals using existing data sources to monitor in-hospital treatment and survival. This study aimed to investigate the accuracy of hospital-based data sources for identifying OHCA cases treated at hospital.

Methods

Retrospective analysis of all OHCAs aged >18 years included in the NALHN OHCA registry between 2011-16. Registry cases are identified from an emergency medical service (EMS) OHCA registry, Emergency Department (ED) and ICD-10 coding datasets, and key

SUBMITTER: Wittwer MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244476 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature