Delayed medical emergency team calls and associated outcomes

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-30

  Boniatti, Márcio M ^a   Azzolini, Neusa ^b   Viana, Marina V ^b   Ribeiro, Berenice S P ^b   Coelho, Renata S ^b   Castilho, Rodrigo K ^b   Guimarães, Márcio R ^b   Zorzi, Lia ^b   Schulz, Luis F ^b   Filho, Edison M Rodrigues ^b  

^a HOSPITAL NOSSA SENHORA DA CONCEIÇÃO   (Brazil)

^b Critical Care Department   (Brazil)

Author keywords

delayed intervention; medical emergency team; mortality; patient outcome; rapid response system; vital signs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; EMERGENCY CALL SYSTEM; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; THERAPY DELAY; TIME TO TREATMENT;

EID: 84891521472     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829e53b9     Document Type: Article

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