Background The relationship between the ability to recognize and respond to patient
deterioration (escalate care) and its role in preventing failure to rescue (FTR; mortality after a …

Objectives To review literature reporting adverse events and physiological instability in order
to develop frameworks that describe and define clinical deterioration in hospitalised …

Objective: To determine whether there was an association between delayed medical
emergency team calls and mortality after a medical emergency team review. Design: This …

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 Introduction Rapid response teams (RRTs) have been shown to reduce
cardiopulmonary arrests outside the intensive care unit (ICU). Yet the utility of RRTs remains …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of Rapid Response System (RRS) maturation on
delayed Medical Emergency Team (MET) activation and patient characteristics and …

Background Clinically significant deterioration of patients admitted to general wards is a
recognized complication of hospital care. Rapid Response Systems (RRS) aim to reduce the …

Objective: We tested the hypothesis that responses to physiologic deterioration in hospital
ward patients delayed by more than 15 minutes are associated with increased mortality …

Purpose To determine whether earlier intervention was associated with decreased mortality
in critically ill cancer patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU). Methods A …

Rapid Response Teams (RRT) are specialised teams that review deteriorating ward patients
in an attempt to prevent morbidity and mortality. Most studies have assessed the effect of …