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Rapid Response Systems

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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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COMMENTARY

Early warning systems: the next level of rapid response.

Duncan KD, McMullan C, Mills BM. Nursing. 2012;42:38-44.

STUDY

Defining impact of a rapid response team: qualitative study with nurses, physicians and hospital administrators.

Benin AL, Borgstrom CP, Jenq GY, Roumanis SA, Horwitz LI. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:391-398.

STUDY

Rapid response teams and failure to rescue: one community's experience.

Hammer JA, Jones TL, Brown SA. J Nurs Care Qual. 2012;27:352-358.

STUDY

Sustained effectiveness of a primary-team-based rapid response system.

Howell MD, Ngo L, Folcarelli P, et al. Crit Care Med. 2012;40:2562-2568.

REVIEW

Rapid response systems as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review.

Winters BD, Weaver SJ, Pfoh ER, Yang T, Pham JC, Dy SM. Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(5 Part 2):417-425.

STUDY

What stops hospital clinical staff from following protocols? An analysis of the incidence and factors behind the failure of bedside clinical staff to activate the rapid response system in a multi-campus Australian metropolitan healthcare service.

Shearer B, Marshall S, Buist MD, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:569-575.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Have you M.E.T. the future of better patient safety?

Larson L. Trustee. September 2005;58:6-10.

COMMENTARY

The growth of rapid response systems.

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

STUDY

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

Rapid response team in a rural hospital.

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

STUDY

Developing and evaluating a trigger response system.

Cherry K, Martinek J, Esleck S, Ivory A, Logan R, Ward J. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:331-338.

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

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

Triggers for emergency team activation: a multicenter assessment.

Chen J, Bellomo R, Hillman K, Flabouris A, Finfer S; the MERIT Study Investigators for the Simpson Centre and the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group. J Crit Care. 2010;25:359.e1-359.e7.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Beware of basal opioid infusions with PCA therapy.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. March 12, 2009;14:1-3.

STUDY

Rapid response systems in the Netherlands.

Ludikhuize J, Hamming A, de Jonge E, Fikkers BG. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:138-149.

REVIEW