One-year survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction: In-hospital cardiac arrest is a major adverse event with an incidence of 1–6/1000 admissions. It has been poorly researched and data on survival is limited. The outcome of interest in IHCA research is predominantly survival to discharge, however recent guidelines warrant for more long-term outcomes. In this systematic review we sought to quantitatively summarize one-year survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest. Methods: For this systematic review and meta-analysis we performed a systematic search of all published data on one-year survival after IHCA up to March 9th, 2018. Results of the meta-analyses are presented as pooled proportions with corresponding 95% prediction intervals (95%PI). Between-study heterogeneity was assessed using I2 statistic and the DerSimonian–Laird estimator for τ2. Subgroup analyses were performed for cardiac and non-