Effect of a Rapid Response Team on Hospital-wide Mortality and Code Rates Outside the ICU in a Children’s Hospital
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- 21 November 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 298 (19) , 2267-2274
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.298.19.2267
Abstract
In the report To Err Is Human,1 the Institute of Medicine concluded that between 44 000 and 98 000 deaths per year occur in hospitals in the United States as a result of errors. Since publication, these data have captured the attention of the nation,2,3 resulting in aggressive calls for further research,4,5 regulatory interventions,6-8 third-party payer involvement,9,10 and health care organization initiatives to improve this situation. One such initiative, promoted by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement known as the 100 000 Lives Campaign, recommended 6 strategies to decrease the number of preventable inpatient deaths in the United States by 100 000 during the period between December 2004 and June 2006.11 One of these 6 recommended strategies was the implementation of a rapid response team (RRT).Keywords
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