Research Article

Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Propensity Score and Geospatial Cohort Analysis of 3,952 Patients

Table 1

Descriptive and bivariable analysis by the nonwhite race in cardiac arrest (N = 3,952).

Variable no. (%)Sample, N = 3,952White, N = 1,333 (33.73%)Nonwhite, N = 2,619 (66.27%) value

Demographics
 Age, mean (SD)63.21 (15.44)65.53 (15.70)62.03 (15.17)<0.001
 Female1,654 (41.85)474 (35.56)1,180 (45.06)<0.001

 Race<0.001
  White1,333 (33.73)1,333 (100.00)0 (0.00)
  Black1,666 (42.16)0 (0.00)1,666 (63.61)
  Hispanic767 (19.41)0 (0.00)767 (29.29)
  Other186 (4.71)0 (0.00)186 (7.10)

Arrest
 No witness1,291 (32.67)424 (31.81)867 (33.10)0.411
 Before 9113,211 (81.25)1,133 (85.00)2,078 (79.34)<0.001
 Bystander CPR1,203 (30.46)487 (36.59)716 (27.35)<0.001
 CPR delay712 (51.82)321 (61.97)391 (45.68)<0.001
 No AED1,049 (64.32)349 (58.56)700 (67.63)<0.001
 Asystole2,577 (65.21)789 (59.19)1,788 (68.27)<0.001

Hospital
 THP1,118 (45.73)363 (46.07)755 (45.56)0.816

 Discharge
  Death2,639 (66.78)888 (66.62)1,751 (66.86)0.879
  Nonhome635 (48.77)209 (47.29)426 (49.53)0.442
  Poor neurological296 (72.20)87 (60.84)209 (78.28)<0.001

No., number; SD, standard deviation; CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation; AED, automated external defibrillator; ROSC, return of spontaneous circulation; THP, therapeutic hypothermic protocol.