Best-practice interventions: How a rapid response team saves lives

Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-40

  Scholle, Carol C ^a   Mininni, Nicolette C ^b  

^a PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; EDUCATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY CONTROL; RESUSCITATION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

BENCHMARKING; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SELECTION; PENNSYLVANIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RESPIRATORY THERAPY; RESUSCITATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33644851819     PISSN: 03604039     EISSN: 15388689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00152193-200601000-00037     Document Type: Article

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