Applying the termination of resuscitation rules to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests of both cardiac and non-cardiac etiologies: a prospective cohort study

Table 5 Imprecision of basic and advanced life support termination of resuscitation rules

	Etiology	Imprecision
For predicting 1-month unfavorable neurological outcome
BLS TOR rule	Cardiac	Acceptable
BLS TOR rule	Noncardiac	Serious
ALS TOR rule	Cardiac	Serious
ALS TOR rule	Noncardiac	Serious
For predicting 1-month mortality
BLS TOR rule	Cardiac	Acceptable
BLS TOR rule	Noncardiac	Serious
ALS TOR rule	Cardiac	Serious
ALS TOR rule	Noncardiac	Serious

Imprecision is classified as acceptable and serious when the upper limit of the 95 % confidence interval of the false-positive rate is ≤10 % and >10 %, respectively
ALS advanced life support, BLS basic life support, TOR termination of resuscitation

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