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A survey of nurses' beliefs about the medical emergency team system in a Canadian tertiary hospital.

July 13, 2010

Bagshaw SM, Mondor EE, Scouten C, et al. Am J Crit Care. 2010;19(1):74-83.

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Nurses in this study valued medical emergency team (MET) systems, but they also pointed out barriers to activation, including fear of criticism and adherence to the more traditional model of contacting the responsible physician first. Fear of criticism was a finding not reported in a past study of nursing attitudes about MET systems.

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