title: Post-cardiac arrest mortality is declining: a study of the US National Inpatient Sample 2001 to 2009.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Despite several advances in postresuscitation care over the past decade, population-based mortality rates for patients hospitalized with cardiac arrest in the United States have not been studied over this time period. The aim of this study was to determine the annual in-hospital mortality rates of patients with cardiac arrest from 2001 to 2009.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The US mortality rates for hospitalized patients with cardiac arrest were determined using the 2001 to 2009 US National Inpatient Sample, a national hospital discharge database. Using the International Classification of Diseases, 9(th) Edition, code 427.5, we identified patients hospitalized in the United States with cardiac arrest from 2001 to 2009. The main outcome measure was in-hospital mortality. A total of 1 190 860 patients were hospitalized with a diagnosis of cardiac arrest in the United States from 2001 to 2009. The in-hospital mortality rate decreased each year from 69.6% in 2001 to 57.8% in 2009. In multivariable analysis, when controlling for age, sex, race, and comorbidities, earlier year was a strong independent predictor of in-hospital death. The mortality rate declined across all analyzed subgroups, including sex, age, race, and stratification by comorbidity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The in-hospital mortality rate of patients hospitalized with cardiac arrest in the United States decreased by 11.8% from 2001 to 2009.
authors: Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
authors: Jennifer E
authors: JE
authors: Fugate
authors: Waleed
authors: W
authors: Brinjikji
authors: Jay N
authors: JN
authors: Mandrekar
authors: Harry J
authors: HJ
authors: Cloft
authors: Roger D
authors: RD
authors: White
authors: Eelco F M
authors: EF
authors: Wijdicks
authors: Alejandro A
authors: AA
authors: Rabinstein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology