作者
Young Sun Ro, Sang Do Shin, Kyoung Jun Song, Eui Jung Lee, Joo Yeong Kim, Ki Ok Ahn, Sung Pil Chung, Young Taek Kim, Sung Ok Hong, Jung-Ah Choi, Sung Oh Hwang, Dong Jin Oh, Chang Bae Park, Gil Joon Suh, Sung-Il Cho, Seung Sik Hwang
发表日期
2013/5/1
期刊
Resuscitation
卷号
84
期号
5
页码范围
547-557
出版商
Elsevier
简介
BACKGROUND
The goal of this study is to better understand the trend in epidemiological features and the outcomes of emergency medical service (EMS)-assessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) according to the community urbanization level: metropolitan, urban, and rural.
METHODS
This study was performed within a nationwide EMS system with a single-tiered basic-to-intermediate service level and approximately 900 destination hospitals for eligible OHCA cases in South Korea (with 48 million people). A nationwide OHCA database, which included information regarding demographics, Utstein criteria, EMS, and hospital factors and outcomes, was constructed using the EMS run sheets of eligible cases who were transported by 119 EMS ambulances and followed by a medical record review from 2006 to 2010. Cases with an unknown outcome were excluded. The community urbanization level was …
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