Australasian emergency nursing journal : AENJ
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Australas Emerg Nurs J · Jun 2015
Epidemiology of early Rapid Response Team activation after Emergency Department admission.
Rapid Response Team (RRT) calls can often occur within 24h of hospital admission to a general ward. We seek to determine whether it is possible to identify these patients before there is a significant clinical deterioration. ⋯ Patients that trigger RRT calls within 24h of admission have a fourfold increase in risk of in-hospital mortality. Such patients may be identified by greater tachycardia and tachypnoea in the ED.