Track, trigger and teamwork: communication of deterioration in acute medical and surgical wards.

Lynne A Donohue; Ruth Endacott

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Track, trigger and teamwork: communication of deterioration in acute medical and surgical wards.

January 20, 2010

Donohue LA, Endacott R. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2010;26(1):10-7.

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This qualitative study found that nurses relied on their clinical judgment, rather than formal track and trigger systems, to determine when a patient required urgent assistance.

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