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Effect of a Rapid Response Team on the Incidence of In-Hospital Mortality
Obstetric Anesthesia Digest, 2022(Anesth Analg. 2022;135:595–604) Cardiopulmonary arrest in-hospital leads to increased mortality yet is largely preventable with signs of deterioration prior to serious and emergent changes in patients. To intervene early when clinical deterioration is evident prior to adverse effects of cardiopulmonary arrest, rapid response teams (RRTs ...
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Improving hospital sepsis care using PAs and NPs on a rapid response team
JAAPA, 2022ABSTRACT Sepsis carries a high mortality in the United States. Hospitals across the country are working to find new ways to recognize, treat, and streamline care for patients with sepsis. At an academic medical center in the Midwest, a quality improvement project was developed using a sepsis rapid response team with physician associates ...
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Rapid response teams in adult hospitals: time for another look?
Internal Medicine Journal, 2015AbstractRapid response teams (RRT), alternatively termed medical emergency teams, have become part of the clinical landscape in the majority of adult hospitals throughout Australia and New Zealand. These teams aim to bring critical care expertise to the bedside of clinically deteriorating patients residing in general hospital wards with the aim of ...
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Implementation and Impact of a Rapid Response Team in a Children’s Hospital
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2007Like the previous two studies of RRS implementation in a children's hospital, this study--the first to use an RRT model--showed a decrease in the incidence of arrests (although not at a significant level). Low mortality rates and infrequent arrests in children's hospitals make changes in these measures insensitive indicators of the positive impact of ...
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A review of rapid response team activation parameters in New Zealand hospitals
Resuscitation, 2013To review current systems for recognising and responding to clinically deteriorating patients in all New Zealand public hospitals.A cross-sectional study of recognition and response systems in all New Zealand public hospitals was conducted in October 2011. Copies of all current vital sign charts and/or relevant policies were requested.
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Pharmacist involvement in a rapid-response team at a community hospital
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2007In hospital cardiac arrest is associated with high mortality rates.[1][1] Many patients who suffer cardiac arrest or pulmonary arrest have preexisting respiratory or metabolic abnormalities and clinical deterioration.[2][2] Risk factors for avoidable inhospital cardiac arrests include ...
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Rapid response teams to scrutinise staffing at high mortality hospitals
Nursing Standard, 2013Three of England’s top nurses, appointed to investigate hospitals with high death rates, will focus on staffing levels when they begin their site visits this week. Fourteen hospital trusts are being investigated as part of a review, led by medical director of NHS England Sir Bruce Keogh, into higher than expected mortality rates.
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Establishing a rapid response team (RRT) in an academic hospital: One year's experience
Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2006AbstractBACKGROUNDRapid response teams and medical emergency teams have been utilized to rapidly manage seriously ill patients at risk of cardiopulmonary arrest and other high‐risk conditions but have not been extensively described in the American medical literature.OBJECTIVESTo describe a full year's experience of implementing a rapid response team ...
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Hospitals see value in adding pharmacists to rapid-response teams
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2009Some hospitals with rapid-response teams have reconfigured them after realizing that they were missing an important component—a pharmacist. When Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Stanford, California, formed its rapid-response teams in 2006, each team consisted of a physician, a critical ...
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Variability in the Implementation of Rapid Response Teams at Academic American Pediatric Hospitals
The Journal of Pediatrics, 2013Pediatric rapid response teams have become standard over the past decade, but are organized heterogeneously at US academic hospitals, with rare financial support. To compare rapid response team efficacy, pediatric hospitals should agree on standard outcome measures, whether it be a standard definition of floor arrest or of clinical deterioration.
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