Observational studyJournal of general internal medicine2019
Predicting Outcomes of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Retrospective US Validation of the Good Outcome Following Attempted Resuscitation Score.
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- Prognostic models for outcome prediction following in-hospital cardiac arrest using pre-arrest factors: a systematic review, meta-analysis and critical appraisal.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Predicting neurological outcome in adult patients with cardiac arrest: systematic review and meta-analysis of prediction model performance.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Pooled it
- Clinical Predictive Models of Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Survey of the Current Science and Analysis of Model Performances.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Pooled it
- Good Outcome Following Attempted Resuscitation Score and Clinical Frailty Scale for Estimating Long-Term Mortality: An Ancillary Study of the CLEAR Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Checklist-Guided Code Status Discussions in Patients for Whom Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Is Considered Futile: An Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- External validation of GO-FAR 2 calculator for outcomes after in-hospital cardiac arrest with comparison to GO-FAR and trial of expanded applications.Resuscitation plus · 2023Article
- Expert opinion on evidence after the 2020 Korean Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Guidelines: a secondary publication.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Lactate to Albumin Ratio for Predicting Clinical Outcomes after In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Cardiac Arrest and Emergency Care.Heart failure clinics · 2023Review
- Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Cardiac Arrest and Emergency Care.Cardiology clinics · 2022Review
- Survival of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in COVID-19 Infected Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundProviders should estimate a patient's chance of surviving an in-hospital cardiac arrest with good neurologic outcome when initially admitting a patient, in order to participate in shared decision making with patients about their code status.
objectiveTo examine the utility of the "Good Outcome Following Attempted Resuscitation (GO-FAR)" score in predicting prognosis after in-hospital cardiac arrest in a US trauma center.
designRetrospective observational study
settingLevel 1 trauma and academic hospital in Minneapolis, MN, USA
participantsAll cases of pulseless in-hospital cardiac arrest occurring in adults (18 years or older) admitted to the hospital between Jan 2009 and Sept 2018 are included. For patients with more than one arrest, only the first was included in this analysis. MAIN MEASURES: For each patient with verified in-hospital cardiac arrest, we calculated a GO-FAR score based on variables present in the electronic health record at time of admission. Pre-determined outcomes included survival to discharge and survival to discharge with good neurologic outcome. KEY
resultsFrom 2009 to 2018, 403 adults suffered in-hospital cardiac arrest. A majority (65.5%) were male with a mean age of 60.3 years. Overall survival to discharge was 33.0%; survival to discharge with good neurologic outcome was 17.4%. GO-FAR score calculated at the time of admission correlated with survival to discharge with good neurologic outcome (AUC 0.68), which occurred in 5.3% of patients with below average survival likelihood by GO-FAR score, 22.5% with average survival likelihood, and 34.1% with above average survival likelihood.
conclusionsThe GO-FAR score can estimate, at time of admission to the hospital, the probability that a patient will survive to discharge with good neurologic outcome after an in-hospital cardiac arrest. This prognostic information can help providers frame discussions with patients on admission regarding whether to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest.
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