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Characterizing Rapid Response Team Activations at a Community Hospital

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Abstract RATIONALE: Rapid response teams (RRT) were envisioned when resource utilization on treating inpatient cardiac arrest rather than their prevention was questioned. Signs and symptoms of deterioration often precede cardiac arrest.
K. Patel, J. LaVoie, J.L. Crutcher, A. Mendelson   +3 more
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Association of Hospitalization-Level Characteristics With Pediatric Rapid Response Team Outcomes

Hospital Pediatrics
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many institutions have implemented rapid response teams (RRTs) to assess deteriorating patients. Acute deterioration events are often used as proxies for mortality in children; however, risk factors for decompensation events are not well defined.
Anisha K, Coughlin, Kristen A, Smith, Maria C, Pliakas, Julie, Sturza, Katherine E, Bates, Erin F, Carlton   +5 more
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Association of Adverse Events With Rapid Response Team Activations in Hospitalized Children

Hospital Pediatrics
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Adverse events (AEs) are frequent in hospitalized children and may lead to unplanned transfers to intensive care units (ICUs). ICU transfers may occur following activation of nonemergent or emergent assessments by a rapid response team (RRT). We sought to measure and characterize AEs around
Lisa M, Rickey, Maureen, Pimentel, Kelly, Zakar, Sarah, McBride, Gabrielle R, D'Ambrosi, Christopher P, Landrigan   +5 more
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The Sustainability of Innovations in Hospitals: A Look at Rapid Response Teams

2013
This study sought to broaden our understanding of the factors, contexts and processes that bring about the sustainability of innovations in hospitals. Rapid response teams (RRTs)--an innovation that brings critical care expertise to patients in crisis with the goal of improving quality of care--was examined.
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Establishing a rapid response team (RRT) in an academic hospital: One year's experience

Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2006
AbstractBACKGROUNDRapid 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 ...
Emmanuel, King, Rebecca, Horvath, David J, Shulkin   +2 more
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Rapid Response Team Implementation and Hospital Mortality Rates

JAMA, 2009
Stuart F, Reynolds, Rinaldo, Bellomo, Ken, Hillman   +2 more
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Characteristics of Rapid Response Team Calls in a Tertiary Hospital in Egypt

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine
Abstract Background Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) help in the early recognition of deteriorating patients in hospital wards, and provide the needed management at the bedside by a qualified team.
Rania Hosny, Rasha Saad Hussein, Sally Adel Hakim, Ihab Shehad   +3 more
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Rapid response teams to scrutinise staffing at high mortality hospitals

Nursing Standard, 2013
Three 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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Rapid Response Team Implementation in a Children’s Hospital

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2011
Paul J, Sharek, Layla M, Parast, Stephen J, Roth   +2 more
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Hospitals see value in adding pharmacists to rapid-response teams

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2009
Some 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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