Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Table 3 Proportion of surviving patients categorised by country, gender and age group

From: Apples to apples: can differences in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence and outcomes between Sweden and Ireland be explained by core Utstein variables?

	Ireland		Sweden
	n (%)
All cases	350 (6.0)^*		1686 (11.2)^*
Utstein Subgroup	200 (22.2)^*		634 (31.7)^*
EMS-witnessed	56 (16.8)^*		436 (20.0)^*
Age Categories	Male	Female	Male	Female
All ages	283 (7.2)^**	67 (3.6)^a	1276 (12.8)^**	410 (8.1)^a
U18	9 (8.8)^**	2 (3.2)^a	35 (24.3)^**	13 (16.0)^a
18–64	164 (9.3)^**	35 (5.8)^a	614 (18.7)^**	150 (11.7)^a
65+	103 (5.3)^**	30 (2.6)^a	616 (9.8)^**	244 (6.8)^a

EMS Emergency Medical Services
^* Higher incidence in Sweden (p < =0.05)
^** Higher incidence in Swedish males than Irish males (p < =0.05)
^a Higher incidence in Swedish females than Irish females (p < =0.05)

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