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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 4/2016

01-04-2016 | Editorial

Rapid response teams improve outcomes: no

Authors: Ritesh Maharaj, Henry T. Stelfox

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 4/2016

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Rapid response systems (RRS) have been widely endorsed and adopted by hospital systems in industrialized countries to respond to deteriorating patients outside the intensive care unit (ICU) [1]. There is face validity in the idea that a system that promotes early recognition of deterioration and the implementation of time-critical interventions would save lives. Recent systematic reviews point to the potential effectiveness of RRS, but important caveats need to be considered [2‐4]. …
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Metadata
Title
Rapid response teams improve outcomes: no
Authors
Ritesh Maharaj
Henry T. Stelfox
Publication date
01-04-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4246-2

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