Effect of annual hospital admissions of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients on prognosis following cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the prognosis of patients treated at specialized facilities has improved, the relationship between the number of patients treated at hospitals and prognosis is controversial and lacks constancy in those with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). This study aimed to clarify the effect of annual hospital admissions on the prognosis of adult patients with OHCA by analyzing a large cohort.

Methods

The effect of annual hospital admissions on patient prognosis was analyzed retrospectively using data from the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine OHCA registry, a nationwide multihospital prospective database. This study analyzed 3632 of 35,754 patients hospitalized for OHCA of cardiac origin at 86 hospitals. The hospitals were divided into tertiles based on t

SUBMITTER: Tsuchida T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9261001 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature