Just-in-Time Decision Making: Preliminary Findings of a Goals of Care Rapid Response Team. [PDF]
J Pain Symptom Manage, 2023 Context The COVID-19 pandemic placed the issue of resource utilization front and center. Our comprehensive cancer center developed a Goals of Care Rapid Response Team (GOC RRT) to optimize resource utilization balanced with goal-concordant patient care ...
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A Rapid Response Team (RRT) System at a Cancer Center: Innovative Approaches to System Organization and Clinical RRT Pathways. [PDF]
Crit Care Nurs Q, 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.
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Balancing responsibilities, rewards and challenges: A qualitative study illuminating the complexity of being a rapid response team nurse. [PDF]
J Clin Nurs, 2022 Aim and Objective To explore Rapid Response Team nurses' perceptions of what it means being a Rapid Response Team nurse including their perceptions of the collaborative and organisational aspects of the rapid response team (RRT). Background For more than
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Long COVID-19: A Primer for Cardiovascular Health Professionals, on Behalf of the CCS Rapid Response Team. [PDF]
Can J Cardiol, 2021 It is now widely recognized that COVID-19 illness can be associated with significant intermediate and potentially longer-term physical limitations. The term, “long COVID-19” is used to define any patient with persistent symptoms after acute COVID-19 ...
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Improved outcomes after implementation of a specialized pediatric cardiac rapid response team. [PDF]
Cardiol Young, 2021 INTRODUCTION The efficacy of a specialized pediatric cardiac rapid response team is unknown. We hypothesized that a specialized cardiac rapid response team would facilitate team-wide communication between the cardiac stepdown unit and cardiac intensive ...
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Dealing with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a rapid response team operation in Brazil: Quality in practice. [PDF]
Int J Qual Health Care, 2021 Quality problem or issue Up to July 13, 2020, more than 12 million laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection have been reported worldwide, 1,864,681 in Brazil.
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Rapid Response Team (RRT) calls are clinical crises. Clinical and time pressures can hinder effective liaison between staff who call the RRT (‘users’) and those responding as part of the RRT (‘members’). Non-technical skills (NTS) training has
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Nurse worry as a trigger for rapid response team activation improving outcomes: a retrospective cohort study in non-critical units [PDF]
BMC NursingBackground Patients hospitalized outside of monitored environments may experience sudden clinical worsening requiring transfer to the Intensive Care Unit.
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Effect of a multi-faceted rapid response system re-design on repeat calling of the rapid response team. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 BackgroundRepeat Rapid Response Team (RRT) calls are associated with increased in-hospital mortality risk and pose an organisation-level resource burden.
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Simulation-Based Peer Feedback Module for Pediatric Rapid Response Team Handoffs [PDF]
MedEdPORTALIntroduction Deterioration of pediatric patients outside the PICU increases morbidity and mortality. Effective communication during rapid response team (RRT) events is essential.
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