Epidemiology of early Rapid Response Team activation after Emergency Department admission

Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 54-61

  Mora, Juan Carlos ^a   Schneider, Antoine ^a   Robbins, Raymond ^a   Bailey, Michael ^b   Bebee, Bronwyn ^a   Hsiao, Yu Feng Frank ^a   Considine, Julie ^c   Jones, Daryl ^a,b   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^a,b  

^a AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Hospital Rapid Response Team; Intensive care units; Mortality; Triage

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; VICTORIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VICTORIA;

EID: 84958104386     PISSN: 15746267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aenj.2015.05.001     Document Type: Article

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