Community socioeconomic status and public access defibrillators: A multilevel analysis

Although current guidelines recommend that distribution of public-access defibrillators (PADs) should take into account area-level risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), community socioeconomic status (SES) can unduly influence policy implementation in positioning PADs. Using recent, complete data from Seoul Metropolitan City, Korea, this study aims to examine whether community SES is associated with distribution of PADs, in terms of per capita count and risk-grid coverage.

Source: Resuscitation - August 18, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Sun Young Lee, Young Kyung Do, Sang Do Shin, Yong Joo Park, Young Sun Ro, Eui Jung Lee, Kyoung Won Lee, Yu Jin Lee Tags: Clinical paper Source Type: research