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

01-04-2016 | Editorial

Rapid response teams improve outcomes: we are not sure

Authors: Julia Wendon, Carol Hodgson, Rinaldo Bellomo

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 4/2016

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Rapid response teams (RRTs) have been systematically introduced into hospital practice in many countries (Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden) under a variety of names including “medical emergency teams”, “outreach teams” or “emergency response teams”. However, they remain either absent or only sporadically available in a small minority of centres in most of Western Europe and elsewhere in the world. Irrespective of their nomenclature, the aim of RRTs is to improve the safety of deteriorating ward patients [1]. The RRT approach is based on (a) identification of patients at risk; (b) early notification of a team; (c) rapid intervention by the team and (d) audit of the system’s performance [2]. …
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Metadata
Title
Rapid response teams improve outcomes: we are not sure
Authors
Julia Wendon
Carol Hodgson
Rinaldo Bellomo
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/s00134-016-4253-3

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