Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Automated external defibrillator location and socioeconomic deprivation in Great Britain
Authors' conclusion
In England and Scotland, there are differences in distances to the nearest 24/7 accessible AED between the most and least deprived communities.
Study context
- Population
- All postcodes in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales); AED locations from The Circuit national defibrillator network
- Participants
- 1,677,466 postcodes
- Exposure
- Distance to nearest AED by socioeconomic deprivation
- Outcome
- Street network distance from each postcode to the nearest AED (and 24/7-access AED), by deprivation
Methodological detailsobservational, multilevel linear mixed regression
- Observational
- Multilevel linear mixed regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Distance from postcode to nearest AED
- Median distance to nearest AED, Great Britain (GB)
- 726 m
- Median distance to nearest AED, England
- 739 m
- Median distance to nearest AED, Scotland
- 743 m
- Median distance to nearest AED, Wales
- 512 m
- Median distance to nearest 24/7 AED, GB
- 991 m
- Median distance to nearest 24/7 AED, England
- 994 m
- Median distance to nearest 24/7 AED, Wales
- 570 m
- England: 24/7 AED further away in most vs least deprived communities
- 99.2 m
- Scotland: 24/7 AED further away in most vs least deprived communities
- 317.1 m
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Automated external defibrillator location and socioeconomic deprivation in Great Britain. Heart. Published 28 August 2023. doi:10.
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