Survival, expenditure and disposition in patients following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: 1995–2013

Aims To investigate trends in survival to hospital discharge, in-hospital expenditures, and post-acute-care disposition following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the United States. Methods We performed this nationwide serial cross-sectional study using data from the National Inpatient Sample on all patients (age >18 years) hospitalized with OHCA between January 1, 1995, and December 31, 2013. Our main outcome measure was survival to...