Background Respiratory alarm monitoring and rapid response team alerts on hospital
general floors are based on detection of simple numeric threshold breaches. Although some …

Background In-hospital patients may suffer unexpected death because of suboptimal
monitoring. Early recognition of deviating physiological parameters may enable staff to …

Objective: To study the incidence, outcome and potentially avoidable causes of inpatient
cardiopulmonary arrests in a hospital with a “mature” rapid response system (RRS). Design …

Failure-to-Rescue, defined as hospital deaths after adverse events, is an established
measure of patient safety and hospital quality. Until recently, approaches used to address …

Objective Physiological track-and-trigger warning systems are used to identify patients on
acute wards at risk of deterioration, as early as possible. The objective of this study was to …

Objective Physiological track and trigger warning systems (TTs) are used to identify patients
outside critical care areas at risk of deterioration and to alert a senior clinician, Critical Care …

Background and objective Severe adverse events such as cardiac arrest and death are
often heralded by abnormal vital signs hours before the event. This necessitates an …

Objectives: Deteriorating ward patients are at increased risk. Electronic automated advisory
vital signs monitors may help identify such patients and improve their outcomes. Setting: A …

Abstract Background Rapid response systems (RRSs) are considered an important tool for
improving patient safety. We studied the effect of an RRS on the incidence of cardiac arrests …

Rationale: Early warning system (EWS) scores are used by hospital care teams to recognize
early signs of clinical deterioration and trigger more intensive care. Objective: To …