Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Geographic inequalities in prehospital critical care for cardiac arrest: a spatial analysis of deprivation and service configuration
Authors' conclusion
Observed inequalities in prehospital critical care attendance are explained by spatial factors and the geographic configuration of services rather than deprivation alone.
Study context
- Population
- Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients treated by three neighbouring ambulance services in England, 2018–20239,639 neighbourhoods
- Participants
- 57,601 patients
- Exposure
- Neighbourhood deprivation and distance to prehospital critical care base vs prehospital critical care attendance
- Outcome
- Attendance of prehospital critical care teams to OHCA patients (relationship with neighbourhood deprivation)
Methodological detailsmulticentre (three ambulance services), spatial modelling, Moran's I clustering
- Multicentre (three ambulance services)
- Spatial modelling
- Moran's I clustering
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Prehospital critical care attendance
Median neighbourhood attendance
25.0%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Geographic inequalities in prehospital critical care for cardiac arrest: a spatial analysis of deprivation and service configuration. Resuscitation. Published 11 April 2026. doi:10.
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