Risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest among sepsis survivors in Taiwan: analysis of a nationwide population-based cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There is minimal literature examining the association of sepsis with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Using a large national database, we aimed to quantify the risk of OHCA among sepsis patients after hospital discharge.

Design

Population-based cohort study.

Setting

Nationwide sepsis cohort retrieved from the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan between 2000 and 2013.

Participants

We included 17 304 patients with sepsis. After hospital discharge, 144 patients developed OHCA within 30 days and 640 between days 31 and 365.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The main outcomes were OHCA events following hospital discharge for sepsis. To evaluate the independent association between sepsis and OHCA after a sepsis hospitali

SUBMITTER: Hsu WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8442105 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature