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Rapid Response Team: Rapid response teams represent an intuitively simple concept: when a patient demonstrates signs of imminent clinical deterioration, a team of providers is summoned to the bedside to immediately assess and treat the patient with the goal of preventing adverse clinical outcomes... Read Full Glossary Entry >

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STUDY

Differences in outcomes between ICU attending and senior resident physician led medical emergency team responses.

Morris DS, Schweickert W, Holena D, et al. Resuscitation. 2012;83:1434-1437.

STUDY

The use of medical emergency teams in medical and surgical patients: impact of patient, nurse and organisational characteristics.

Schmid-Mazzoccoli A, Hoffman LA, Wolf GA, Happ MB, Devita MA. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17:377-381.

STUDY

Rescue me: saving the vulnerable non-ICU patient population.

Bader MK, Neal B, Johnson L, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:199-205.

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Use of medical emergency team (MET) responses to detect medical errors.

Braithwaite RS, DeVita MA, Mahidhara R, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2004;13:255-259.

COMMENTARY

The growth of rapid response systems.

Steel AC, Reynolds SF. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2008;34:489-495.

STUDY

Retrospective review of emergency response activations during a 13-year period at a tertiary care children's hospital.

Wang GS, Erwin N, Zuk J, Henry DB, Dobyns EL. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:131-135.

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Problems and solutions arising during a study in visual semantics of the medical emergency team system.

Santiano N, Baramy LS, Young L, et al. Qual Health Res. 2008 ct: 18: 1336-44.

STUDY

Nurse decision making in the prearrest period.

Gazarian PK, Henneman EA, Chandler GE. Clin Nurs Res. 2010;19:21-37.

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Impact of an intensivist-led multidisciplinary extended rapid response team on hospital-wide cardiopulmonary arrests and mortality.

Al-Qahtani S, Al-Dorzi HM, Tamim HM, et al. Crit Care Med. 2013;41:506-517.

STUDY

Uncovering system errors using a rapid response team: cross-coverage caught in the crossfire.

Kaplan LJ, Maerz LL, Schuster K, et al. J Trauma. 2009;67:173-179.

STUDY

The effect of a rapid response team on major clinical outcome measures in a community hospital.

Dacey MJ, Mirza ER, Wilcox V, et al. Crit Care Med. 2007;35:2076-2082.

STUDY

Vital sign abnormalities, rapid response, and adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients.

Fagan K, Sabel A, Mehler PS, MacKenzie TD. Am J Med Qual. 2012;27:480-486.

COMMENTARY

Emergency response in outpatient oncology care: improving patient safety.

Schiavone R. Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2009;13:440-442.

COMMENTARY

A pediatric medical emergency team manages a complex child with hypoxia and a worried parent.

Shilkofski NA, Hunt EA. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:236-241.

STUDY

Nurses' perceptions of simulation-based interprofessional training program for rapid response and code blue events.

Wehbe-Janek H, Lenzmeier CR, Ogden PE, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2012;27:43-50.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Hospitals try to break a deadly 'code.'

Kowalczyk L. The Boston Globe. November 27, 2005:A1.

COMMENTARY

Improving sepsis care through systems change: the impact of a medical emergency team.

Sarani B, Brenner SR, Gabel B, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2008;34:179-182.

STUDY

How RNs rescue patients: a qualitative study of RNs' perceived involvement in rapid response teams.

Leach LS, Mayo A, O'Rourke M. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e13.

STUDY

Rapid response team in a rural hospital.

Brown S, Anderson MA, Hill PD. Clin Nurse Spec. 2012;26:95-102.

STUDY

Medical emergency teams: a strategy for improving patient care and nursing work environments.

Galhotra S, Scholle CC, Dew MA, Mininni NC, Clermont G, DeVita MA. J Adv Nurs. 2006;55:180-187.

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