Racial Differences in Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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Abstract
Survival following in-hospital cardiac arrest represents a unique opportunity to examine racial disparities in medical care and outcomes. In-hospital cardiac arrest is an emergency condition tightly linked to processes of care and for which there is little debate regarding clinical appropriateness of treatment in eligible patients.1 Furthermore, because patients are already in the hospital, potential racial differences in access to care or medical compliance are not likely to confound the association between the care delivered and patients' outcomes.