Impact of proactive rounding by a rapid response team on patient outcomes at an academic medical center.

Brad W Butcher; Eric Vittinghoff; Judith Maselli; Andrew D Auerbach

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Impact of proactive rounding by a rapid response team on patient outcomes at an academic medical center.

January 16, 2013

Butcher BW, Vittinghoff E, Maselli J, et al. J Hosp Med. 2012;8(1).

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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.

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