Incidence of treated cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients in the United States

• Published in: Critical care medicine Vol. 39; no. 11; p. 2401
• Main Authors: Merchant, Raina M, Yang, Lin, Becker, Lance B, Berg, Robert A, Nadkarni, Vinay, Nichol, Graham, Carr, Brendan G, Mitra, Nandita, Bradley, Steven M, Abella, Benjamin S, Groeneveld, Peter W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.2011
• Subjects: Data Collection; Heart Arrest - epidemiology; Hospital Administration - statistics & numerical data; Hospitals - classification; Hospitals - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Incidence; Regression Analysis; Residence Characteristics; Socioeconomic Factors; Time Factors; United States; United States

The incidence and incidence over time of cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients is unknown. We sought to estimate the event rate and temporal trends of adult inhospital cardiac arrest treated with a resuscitation response. Three approaches were used to estimate the inhospital cardiac arrest event r...