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Regional health expenditure and health outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Japan: an observational study

 
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Tsugawa, YusukeHARVARDORCID  0000-0002-1937-4833
Hasegawa, KoheiHARVARD
Hiraide, Atsushi
Jha, Ashish KHARVARD
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008374
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Tsugawa, Yusuke, Kohei Hasegawa, Atsushi Hiraide, and Ashish K Jha. 2015. “Regional health expenditure and health outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Japan: an observational study.” BMJ Open 5 (8): e008374. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008374.
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Objectives: Japan is considering policies to set the target health expenditure level for each region, a policy approach that has been considered in many other countries. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between regional health expenditure and health outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), which incorporates the qualities of prehospital, in-hospital and posthospital care systems. Design: We examined the association between prefecture-level per capita health expenditure and patients’ health outcomes after OHCA. Setting: We used a nationwide, population-based registry system of OHCAs that captured all cases with OHCA resuscitated by emergency responders in Japan from 2005 to 2011. Participants: All patients with OHCA aged 1–100 years were analysed. Outcome measures The patients’ 1-month survival rate, and favourable neurological outcome (defined as cerebral performance category 1–2) at 1-month. Results: Among 618 154 cases with OHCA, the risk-adjusted 1-month survival rate varied from 3.3% (95% CI 2.9% to 3.7%) to 8.4% (95% CI 7.7% to 9.1%) across prefectures. The risk-adjusted probabilities of favourable neurological outcome ranged from 1.6% (95% CI 1.4% to 1.9%) to 3.7% (95% CI 3.4% to 3.9%). Compared with prefectures with lowest tertile health expenditure, 1-month survival rate was significantly higher in medium-spending (adjusted OR 1.31, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.66, p=0.03) and high-spending prefectures (adjusted OR 1.30, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.64, p=0.02), after adjusting for patient characteristics. There was no difference in the survival between medium-spending and high-spending regions. We observed similar patterns for favourable neurological outcome. Additional adjustment for regional per capita income did not affect our overall findings. Conclusions: We observed a wide variation in the health outcomes after OHCA across regions. Low-spending regions had significantly worse health outcomes compared with medium-spending or high-spending regions, but no difference was observed between medium-spending and high-spending regions. Our findings suggest that focusing on the median spending may be the optimum that allows for saving money without compromising patient outcomes.
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