Heart : official journal of the British Cardiac Society
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Multicenter Study
Socioeconomic disparities in prehospital factors and survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
It remains unknown whether patient socioeconomic factors affect interventions and survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), and whether a socioeconomic effect on bystander interventions affects survival. Therefore, this study examined patient socioeconomic disparities in prehospital factors and survival. ⋯ Overall, lower socioeconomic status was associated with poorer prehospital factors and survival after OHCA that was not explained by patient or cardiac arrest-related factors.