Global Differences in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Reporting

Conclusion Large disparities exist surrounding OHCA patients among three different high-income countries. In addition to this, there are significant gaps in capturing, reporting, sharing and analyzing OHCA data across regional and national borders. Uniformity of reporting standards continue to hinder the epidemiological evidence base for OHCA. Much about OHCA epidemiology is still unknown in many regions of the world, including countries with regional OHCA surveillance in place. These findings present considerable challenges not only nationally, but globally for evaluating the global burden of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. References 1. National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians. (October 2017.) Agency guide for recertification. Retrieved December 6, 2018, from  https://content.nremt.org/static/documents/Agency%20Guide%20-%20Recertification.pdf. 2. Kolte D, Khera S, Aronow WS, et al. Regional variation in the incidence and outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States. Circulation. 2015;131(16):1415–1425. 3. Yamaguchi Y, Woodin JA, Gibo K, et al. Improvements in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival from 1998 to 2013. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2017;21(5):616–627. 4. U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health. (2018.) Pubmed. Retrieved Dec 6, 2018, from www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed. 5. Perkins G, Jacobs I, Nadkarni V, et al. Cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcome reports: Update of the Utstein resuscitation regi...
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