Association of extracerebral organ failure with 1-year survival and healthcare-associated costs after cardiac arrest: an observational database study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Organ dysfunction is common after cardiac arrest and associated with worse short-term outcome, but its impact on long-term outcome and treatment costs is unknown.

Methods

We used nationwide registry data from the intensive care units (ICU) of the five Finnish university hospitals to evaluate the association of 24-h extracerebral Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (24h-EC-SOFA) score with 1-year survival and healthcare-associated costs after cardiac arrest. We included adult cardiac arrest patients treated in the participating ICUs between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2013. We acquired the confirmed date of death from the Finnish Population Register Centre database and gross 1-year healthcare-associated costs from the hospital billing records and the database

SUBMITTER: Pekkarinen PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6396453 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature