Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival
Description:
CARES was developed to help communities determine standard outcome measures for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), allowing for local quality improvement efforts and benchmarking capability to improve care and increase survival.
CARES is a secure, Web-based data management system in which participating communities enter local data and generate their own reports. Communities can compare their EMS system performance to de-identified aggregate statistics at the local, state, or national level and discover promising practices that could improve emergency cardiac care.
Supplier:
Emory University
Data Years Available:
2006–present
Periodicity:
Annual
Mode of Collection:
N/A
Selected Content:
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Population Covered:
The 2015 CARES cohort is comprised of over 580 EMS agencies, representing an estimated population of approximately 90 million or more than 25% of the US population. The data source is national in scope, representing urban, suburban, and rural communities in 36 states.
Methodology:
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Response Rates and Sample Size:
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Interpretation Issues:
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