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  "id": "2004-march-survey-helps-explain-heart-attack-survival",
  "slug": "2004-march-survey-helps-explain-heart-attack-survival",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2004-march-survey-helps-explain-heart-attack-survival.html",
  "year": 2004,
  "month": "March",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "Survey helps explain heart attack survival",
  "kicker": "SPOTLIGHT: EMERGENCY RESPONSE",
  "author_name": "Robert Davis",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "USA Today",
  "summary": "An investigation into varying cardiac arrest survival rates across cities highlighted how some save substantially more victims due to differing emergency response capabilities.",
  "keywords": [
    "heart attack",
    "survival",
    "emergency"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Health & Environment",
    "Investigative Methods"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "In the early 1990s, a discrepancy between big city survival rates for cardiac arrest cases began to come into focus in medical journals - some cities saved 10 times more victims than others.\n\nAs a back-burner issue project that I pursued amid daily stories, I began looking for ways to detail those differences. Whenever I spoke with an emergency room physician, fire department official or cardiology researcher for a story, I asked them about the discrepancies.\n\nI began to see that the officials explained away the differences with reasons they usually said were out of",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
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