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- Title
Hospital-wide Code Rates and Mortality Before and After Implementation of a Rapid Response Team.
- Authors
Chan, Paul S.; Khalid, Adnan; Longmore, Lance S.; Berg, Robert A.; Kosiborod, Mikhail; Spertus, John A.
- Abstract
The article presents a prospective cohort study which determined the rates of mortality and hospital codes before and after the introduction of long-term rapid response teams in hospitals. The authors explain that rapid response teams have been shown to decrease cardiopulmonary arrest code rates. Adult inpatients admitted between January 1, 2004 and August 31, 2007 were used for the study. 24,193 patient admissions were evaluated prior to the implementation of a rapid response team. 24,978 were evaluated after the intervention. Researchers found that implementation of the rapid response team was not associated with reductions in mortality or hospital-wide code rates.
- Subjects
COHORT analysis; EMERGENCY medical services; SERVICES for hospital patients; MORTALITY; THERAPEUTICS; CARDIAC arrest; MEDICAL care
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2008, Vol 300, Issue 21, p2506
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2008.715