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Medical facilities in the neighborhood and incidence of sudden cardiac arrest
Resuscitation, v 130, pp 118-123
Sep 2018
PMID: 30057353
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Abstract
Medical establishments in the neighborhood, such as pharmacies and primary care clinics, may play a role in improving access to preventive care and treatment and could explain previously reported neighborhood variations in sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) incidence and survival.
The Cardiac Arrest Blood Study Repository is a population-based repository of data from adult cardiac arrest patients and population-based controls residing in King County, Washington. We examined the association between the availability of medical facilities near home with SCA risk, using adult (age 18–80) Seattle residents experiencing cardiac arrest (n = 446) and matched controls (n = 208) without a history of heart disease. We also analyzed the association of major medical centers near the event location with emergency medical service (EMS) response time and survival among adult cases (age 18+) presenting with ventricular fibrillation from throughout King County (n = 1537). The number of medical facilities per census tract was determined by geocoding business locations from the National Establishment Time-Series longitudinal database 1990–2010.
More pharmacies in the home census tract was unexpectedly associated with higher odds of SCA (OR:1.28, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.59), and similar associations were observed for other medical facility types. The presence of a major medical center in the event census tract was associated with a faster EMS response time (−53 s, 95% CI: −84, −22), but not with short-term survival.
We did not observe a protective association between medical facilities in the home census tract and SCA risk, orbetween major medical centers in the event census tract and survival.
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- Title
- Medical facilities in the neighborhood and incidence of sudden cardiac arrest
- Creators
- Charlene E. Goh - Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University, New York, NY, United StatesStephen J. Mooney - Harborview Injury Prevention and Research CenterDavid S. Siscovick - New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY, United States.Rozenn N. Lemaitre - University of WashingtonPhilip Hurvitz - Urban Design GroupNona Sotoodehnia - University of WashingtonTanya K. Kaufman - Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University, New York, NY, United StatesGarazi Zulaika - Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University, New York, NY, United StatesGina S. Lovasi - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Resuscitation, v 130, pp 118-123
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000441280100025
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85050290059
- Other Identifier
- 991019168536304721
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