Six year audit of cardiac arrests and medical emergency team calls in an Australian outer metropolitan teaching hospital.

Michael Buist; Julia Harrison; Ellie Abaloz; Susan Van Dyke

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Six year audit of cardiac arrests and medical emergency team calls in an Australian outer metropolitan teaching hospital.

December 19, 2007

Buist M, Harrison J, Abaloz E, et al. BMJ. 2007;335(7631):1210-2.

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An Australian hospital with a long-standing medical emergency team has had a significant and sustained decline in cardiac arrests since the team was implemented.

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