Ryan Huebinger
University of New Mexico, NM·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
When someone's heart stops outside a hospital, survival is a coin flip weighted heavily against them: over 350,000 of these out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in the United States each year and fewer than one in ten patients survives. Survival is about 40% worse for patients from African American, Hispanic/Latino and low-income communities.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
health disparities
interhospital variation
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jun 2030
What they work on
- Build statistical models using a cardiac arrest registry to determine whether racial, ethnic and socioeconomic differences in post-arrest hospital care and outcomes arise between hospitals or within them.
- Use Medicare claims data to compare previously uninvestigated post-cardiac-arrest care modalities across hospitals and estimate how much each contributes to differences in patient outcomes.
- Interview out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors, their families and their care providers to identify the reasons for interhospital care disparities and potential solutions.
- Translate the identified between-hospital care gaps into a targeted intervention design for improving cardiac arrest hospital care across communities.
More about the research
Much attention has gone to what happens before the ambulance arrives, but far less is known about whether hospital care after arrival differs by the community a patient comes from. Early evidence suggests the gap lies between hospitals - hospitals serving different populations deliver different care - rather than within a single hospital treating different patients differently.
Why it matters
Patients from low-income, African American and Hispanic/Latino communities survive cardiac arrest far less often, and the hospital phase of their care is largely unexamined. Pinpointing which treatments differ between hospitals, and hearing from survivors, families and clinicians about why, could identify concrete targets - specific care practices at specific types of hospitals - for interventions that raise survival for all cardiac arrest patients.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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Monica O'Reilly-Jacob
Columbia University, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
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The school
University of New Mexico: 27 labs on PI Pages, $355M a year on research, 182 research doctorates a year.
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