Black, Hispanic cardiac arrest survivors often treated at hospitals with lower quality measures

Across the U.S., Black and Hispanic people who survived cardiac arrest occurring outside of a hospital setting were less likely than white people to survive to hospital discharge or survive with favorable neurological outcomes, potentially due to the quality measures of the hospital to which they are admitted, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Science Symposium 2023, held Nov. 11–12 in Philadelphia.