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Outcomes of Basic Versus Advanced Life Support for Out-of-Hospital Medical Emergencies

Stephen B. Soumerai, ScD

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The recent article by Sanghavi and colleagues reports interesting Medicare claims data on the reduced survival of patients receiving advanced life support (ALS) versus basic life support (BLS) ambulances (1). Unsurprisingly, as with all research, this study raises important questions about bias and confounding.
First, the authors used a cross-sectional design with no estimate of pre–post change and no adequate counterfactual (control). Although conducting a randomized, control trial (RCT) is difficult, a hierarchy of quasi-experimental (non-RCT) designs produce differing levels of validity of causal inferences (2). The cross-sectional design, with or without propensity...
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Soumerai SB. Outcomes of Basic Versus Advanced Life Support for Out-of-Hospital Medical Emergencies. Ann Intern Med. 2016;165:68–69. doi: 10.7326/L15-0627

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2016;165(1):68-69.

DOI: 10.7326/L15-0627

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