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A review of rapid response team activation parameters in New Zealand hospitals

Resuscitation, 2013
To 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.
Alex Psirides
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Association between time of day for rapid response team activation and mortality.

Journal of critical care, 2023
PURPOSE To evaluate the frequency of rapid response team (RRT) calls by time of day and their association with in-hospital mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of all RRT calls at a tertiary teaching hospital in Porto ...
M. Boniatti, Melina Silva de Loreto, G. Mazzutti, I. G. Benedetto, Josiane F. John, L. Zorzi, Marcius C Prestes, M. V. Viana, Moreno Calcagnotto dos Santos, T. C. D. Buttelli, W. Nedel, D. S. L. Nunes, G. B. Barcellos, J. Neyeloff, J. Dora, T. Lisboa   +15 more
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Rapid Response Teams in Teaching Hospitals

2017
Teaching hospitals still pursue the same enterprises as the Academy of Gundishapur in the Persian Empire: teaching, research, and patient care. A unique challenge in teaching hospitals is the high staff turnover, with both nurses and doctors’ rotation: local know-how is thus changed—and drained—regularly.
Max Bell, David Konrad
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A systematic review of the facilitators and barriers to rapid response team activation.

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 2023
BACKGROUND Outcomes associated with rapid response teams (RRTs) are inconsistent. This may be due to underlying facilitators and barriers to RRT activation that are affected by team leaders and health systems.
Jonathan D. Hecht, Linda H. Yoder, Valerie Danesh, Elizabeth M. Heitkemper   +3 more
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A Rapid Response Team (RRT) System at a Cancer Center: Innovative Approaches to System Organization and Clinical RRT pathways

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 2023
The Rapid Response Team (RRT) system at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center led by critical care medicine (CCM) advanced practice providers (APPs) expanded exponentially between 2009 and 2021.
Tara Buchholz, Melissa Barzola, Yekaterina Tayban, N. Halpern   +3 more
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Implementing a Rapid Response Team

Dimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN, 2023
Background The benefits of rapid response teams (RRTs) have been controversial with few studies conducted in low- to middle-income countries. Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of implementing an RRT on 4 patient ...
Sabat El Jamous, I. Kouatly, J. Irani, L. Badr   +3 more
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Pharmacist involvement in a rapid-response team at a community hospital

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2007
In 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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Improving hospital sepsis care using PAs and NPs on a rapid response team

JAAPA, 2022
ABSTRACT 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 ...
Kristi, Dooley, Whitney, Guzik, Gabi, Rooker, Luke, Beecher, Caitlin, Hiniker, Andrew, Olson   +5 more
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Experience of pediatric rapid response team in a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2010
To report our experience before and after implementation of pediatric rapid response team (RRT) in pediatric wards of a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan.An audit of RRT activity from December 2007 to August 2008 was conducted and reviewed patient diagnoses at the time of call placement, interventions done and post-intervention clinical outcomes ...
Haque, Anwarul, Saleem, Ali Faisal, Zaidi, Samreen, Haider, Syed Rizwan   +3 more
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Rapid Response Teams in Hospitals

Holistic Nursing Practice, 2006
As the healthcare delivery system continues to evolve in the new millennium, initiatives such as the Institute for HealthCare Improvement's 100,000 Lives Campaign include the development of rapid response teams in hospitals. Introduction of rapid response teams provides nurses assistance in difficult clinical situations and provides early clinical ...
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