TY  - JOUR
T1  - RApid response team implementation and hospital mortality rates
AU  - Sherner JH
Y1  - 2009/04/22
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.528
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1658
EP  - 1660
VL  - 301
IS  - 16
N2  - 
Additionally, the purpose of a rapid response team is to reduce preventable mortality, which may not translate into a statistically significant reduction in overall mortality. Previous studies suggest that patients in approximately 66% of codes show significant vital sign abnormalities (which are the usual triggers for rapid response team activation) in the hours prior to a code.2 It would be interesting to see data on the number of patients who met rapid response team activation criteria before and after implementation and compare the outcomes in this specific subset of patients.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.528
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.528
ER  -