Some key benefits of state integration with CARES (Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival):

CARES helps state EMS administrators and medical directors to:

• Identify who is affected by cardiac arrest
• Determine when and where cardiac arrest events occur
• Evaluate which elements of the system are functioning properly and which need improvement
• Make informed changes to improve cardiac arrest outcomes
• Perform benchmarking of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest measures
• Apply systematic validation to your states cardiac arrest EMS data collection

Additional benefits include:

• Internet-based database system that reduces time involved in registering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest events
• Ability to track patient outcomes with hospitals prospectively
• Monitoring of response time intervals
• Technical support for integration implementation and maintenance
• Validation tools to ensure data quality and compliance with national standards

Through state integration, participating states can achieve 100% population coverage by integrating CARES with their state EMS data repository, leading to more comprehensive cardiac arrest surveillance and outcome improvement efforts.