July 1, 2003CirculationOpen Access

Racial Disparity in Cardiac Procedures and Mortality Among Long-Term Survivors of Cardiac Arrest

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Why the study?

Are there racial disparities in cardiac procedure utilization and long-term mortality among elderly Medicare beneficiaries surviving cardiac arrest?

Structured PICO

Are there racial disparities in cardiac procedure utilization and long-term mortality among elderly Medicare beneficiaries surviving cardiac arrest?

Population

5,948 elderly Medicare beneficiaries (5,429 white and 519 black) who survived to hospital discharge between 1990 and 1999 after admission for cardiac arrest.

Intervention

Black race (exposure) and utilization of cardiac procedures (implantable cardioverter-defibrillators [ICDs] or revascularization)

Comparator

White race and non-utilization of cardiac procedures

Outcome

Long-term mortality and cardiac procedure utilization rateshard clinical

Elderly black survivors of cardiac arrest have higher long-term mortality than white survivors, which may be partially explained by lower rates of life-saving procedures like ICD implantation.

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Implication

Lower ICD use may underlie higher mortality in elderly Black cardiac arrest survivors; hypothesis-generating for equity interventions.

Cite This Study

Groeneveld et al. (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7da19330df0be8fb5c9829 https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.0000079164.95019.5a

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Cardiac device therapy

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Racial Disparity in Cardiac Procedures and Mortality Among Long-Term Survivors of Cardiac Arrest

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Racial Disparity in Cardiac Procedures and Mortality Among Long-Term Survivors of Cardiac Arrest

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