Table 1.

Two questions used to classify outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and correlations with other measures of outcome.

1) In the last two weeks, did you require help from another person for your everyday activities?
	No (N = 27)		Yes (N = 5)
2) Do you feel that you have made a complete mental recovery from your heart arrest?
	Yes (N = 24)	No (N = 3)
Measure at hospital discharge	Full Recovery (N = 24)	Independent (N = 3)	Dependent* (N = 5)	P-value†
CPC				0.075
Normal	21	3	2
Independent	3	0	2
Dependent	0	0	1
Measure at 3 months
General Health Status				0.004
Excellent	5	0	0
Very Good	12	1	0
Good	5	1	1
Fair	2	0	1
Poor	0	1	3
ALFI-MMSE (SD), N=31	20.4 (2.0)	18.7 (2.9)	11.2 (11.4)	0.002
HUI3 (SD), N=24	0.82 (0.21)	--	0.30 (0.32)	0.001

CPC stands for Cerebral Performance Category; ALFI-MMSE, Adult Lifestyles and Function Interview - Mini-Mental State Examination; HUI3, Health Utility Index Mark 3; and SD, standard deviation.

^*One survivor reported both dependency and full recovery. All associations in the table were stronger if this survivor was classified as full recovery or excluded rather than as dependent.

^†P-value based on counts and Fisher exact test for CPC and General Health Status and on means and analysis of variance for ALFI-MMSE and HUI3.