Impact of proactive rounding by a rapid response team on patient outcomes at an academic medical center.
Butcher BW, Vittinghoff E, Maselli J, et al. Impact of proactive rounding by a rapid response team on patient outcomes at an academic medical center. J Hosp Med. 2012;8(1). doi:10.1002/jhm.1977.
The introduction of a rapid response team—consisting of a critical care nurse and respiratory therapist—that proactively rounded on patients discharged from the intensive care unit did not improve clinical outcomes for those patients.