Using Medical Emergency Teams to detect preventable adverse events.

Akshai Iyengar; Alan Baxter; Alan J. Forster

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Using Medical Emergency Teams to detect preventable adverse events.

September 9, 2009

Iyengar A, Baxter A, Forster AJ. Crit Care. 2009;13(4):R126.

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Structured analysis of medical emergency team calls proved to be an effective method of identifying preventable adverse events.

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