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SUBMITTER: Sasson C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3632370 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sasson Comilla C Keirns Carla C CC Smith Dylan D Sayre Michael M Macy Michelle M Meurer William W McNally Bryan F BF Kellermann Arthur L AL Iwashyna Theodore J TJ
Annals of internal medicine 20100601 1
<h4>Background</h4>The incidence and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vary widely across cities. It is unknown whether similar differences exist at the neighborhood level.<h4>Objective</h4>To determine the extent to which neighborhoods have persistently high rates of cardiac arrest but low rates of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).<h4>Design</h4>Multilevel Poisson regression of 1108 cardiac arrests from 161 census tracts as captured by the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhanc ...[more]