Association Between a Hospital’s Rate of Cardiac Arrest Incidence and Cardiac Arrest Survival

Abstract

Approximately 200 000 adults have hospitalizations complicated by a cardiac arrest annually in the United States.¹ Because less than 20% survive to hospital discharge,² most prior studies^3-9 have focused on identifying factors associated with improved in-hospital survival. However, this emphasis may not accurately reflect a hospital’s overall performance in resuscitation outcomes because it ignores the hospital’s cardiac arrest incidence rate.¹⁰