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Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf · Jun 2010
Evolution of a rapid response system from voluntary to mandatory activation.
- Catherine M Jones, Anthony J Bleyer, and Becky Petree.
- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. cmjones@wfubmc.edu
- Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010 Jun 1;36(6):266-70, 241.
AbstractA policy requiring rapid response activation for all patients who met physiologic instability criteria, which was initiated four years after the rapid response system's inception, significantly increased the number of rapid response calls and was associated with a reduction in cardiorespiratory arrests outside of critical care areas.
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