Rapid response team implementation and in-hospital mortality

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2001-2006

  Salvatierra, Gail ^a   Bindler, Ruth C ^b   Corbett, Cynthia ^b   Roll, John ^b   Daratha, Kenn B ^b,c,d  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac arrest; emergency teams; hospital mortality; medical emergency teams; rapid response system; rapid response team

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TIME; UNITED STATES;

COMORBIDITY; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; HUMANS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84906790779     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000347     Document Type: Article

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