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Hispanic/Latino-Serving Hospitals Provide Less Targeted Temperature Management Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Nicholas A Morris, Department of Neurology Program in Trauma University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore MD.
  • Michael Mazzeffi, Department of Anesthesia University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore MD.
  • Patrick McArdle, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore MD.
  • Teresa L May, Department of Critical Care Services Maine Medical Center Portland ME.
  • Greer Waldrop, Department of Neurology Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons New York NY.
  • Sarah M Perman, Department of Emergency Medicine Department of Medicine Center for Women's Health Research University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora CO.
  • James F Burke, Department of Neurology University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI.
  • Steven M Bradley, Minneapolis Heart Institute and Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation Minneapolis MN.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-21-2021
Institution/Department
Critical Care Medicine
MeSH Headings
Healthcare Disparities; Hispanic or Latino; Hospitals (statistics & numerical data); Humans; Hypothermia, Induced (statistics & numerical data); Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (ethnology, therapy); Retrospective Studies; United States (epidemiology)
Abstract

Background Variation exists in outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), but whether racial and ethnic disparities exist in post-arrest provision of targeted temperature management (TTM) is unknown. Methods and Results We performed a retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected cohort of patients who survived to admission following OHCA from the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival, whose catchment area represents ~50% of the United States from 2013-2019. Our primary exposure was race/ethnicity and primary outcome was utilization of TTM. We built a mixed-effects model with both state of arrest and admitting hospital modeled as random intercepts to account for clustering. Among 96,695 patients (24.6% Black, 8.0% Hispanic/Latino, 63.4% White), a smaller percentage of Hispanic/Latino patients received TTM than Black or White patients (37.5% vs. 45.0 % vs 43.3%, P < .001) following OHCA. In the mixed-effects model, Black patients (Odds Ratio [OR] 1.153, 95% Confidence Interval [CI] 1.102-1.207, P < .001) and Hispanic/Latino patients (OR 1.086, 95% CI 1.017-1.159, P < .001) were slightly more likely to receive TTM compared to White patients, perhaps due to worse admission neurological status. We did find community level disparity as Hispanic/Latino-serving hospitals (defined as the top decile of hospitals that cared for the highest proportion of Hispanic/Latino patients) provided less TTM (OR 0.587, 95% CI 0.474 to 0.742, P < .001). Conclusions Reassuringly, we did not find evidence of intrahospital or interpersonal racial or ethnic disparity in the provision of TTM. However, we did find inter-hospital, community level disparity. Hispanic/Latino-serving hospitals provided less guideline-recommended TTM after OHCA.

Citation Information
Morris NA, Mazzeffi M, McArdle P, et al. Hispanic/Latino-Serving Hospitals Provide Less Targeted Temperature Management Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021;10(24):e017773. doi:10.1161/JAHA.121.023934