Impact of Hospital Teaching Status on Mortality, Length of Stay and Cost Among Patients With Cardiac Arrest in the United States

Limited data exist regarding the in-hospital outcomes in patients with cardiac arrest (CA) in teaching versus nonteaching hospital settings. Using the Nationwide (National) Inpatient Sample (2008 to 2012), 731,107 cases of CA were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edit...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American journal of cardiology 2016-09, Vol.118 (5), p.668-672
Hauptverfasser: Dolmatova, Elena V., MD, Moazzami, Kasra, MD, MPH, Klapholz, Marc, MD, Kothari, Neil, MD, Feurdean, Mirela, MD, Waller, Alfonso H., MD
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Zusammenfassung:Limited data exist regarding the in-hospital outcomes in patients with cardiac arrest (CA) in teaching versus nonteaching hospital settings. Using the Nationwide (National) Inpatient Sample (2008 to 2012), 731,107 cases of CA were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition codes. Among these patients, 348,368 (47.6%) were managed in teaching hospitals and 376,035 (51.4%) in nonteaching hospitals. Patients in teaching hospitals with CA were younger (62.42 vs 68.08 years old), had less co-morbidities (p
ISSN:0002-9149
1879-1913
DOI:10.1016/j.amjcard.2016.05.062