Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Is Clustered and Associated With Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics: A Geospatial Analysis of Kent County, Michigan

• Published in: Academic emergency medicine Vol. 24; no. 8; pp. 930 - 939
• Main Authors: Uber, Amy, Sadler, Richard C., Chassee, Todd, Reynolds, Joshua C., Smith, Stephen W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.08.2017
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - statistics & numerical data; Case-Control Studies; Child; Child, Preschool; Cluster Analysis; CPR; Datasets; Defibrillators; Emergency medical care; Female; Geography; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Logistic Models; Male; Michigan; Middle Aged; Odds Ratio; Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - therapy; Prevalence; Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data; Rural areas; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Analysis; Young Adult; United States > US; Michigan

Objectives Geographic clustering of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is associated with demographic and socioeconomic features of the community where out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) occurred, although this association remains largely untested in rural areas. With a significant rur...