SynthesisIntensive care medicine2006
Investigating the effectiveness of critical care outreach services: a systematic review.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Investigating the effectiveness of critical care outreach services: a systematic review.Intensive care medicine · 2006Pooled it
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- Unplanned Transfers from Hospital Wards to the Neurological Intensive Care Unit.Neurocritical care · 2015Article
- Improving clinical handover between intensive care unit and general ward professionals at intensive care unit discharge.Intensive care medicine · 2015Review
- Effects of a rapid response system on quality of life: a prospective cohort study in surgical patients before and after implementing a rapid response system.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2013Article
- Incidence of cardiac arrests and unexpected deaths in surgical patients before and after implementation of a rapid response system.Annals of intensive care · 2012Article
- Rapid response systems in acute hospital care.Annals of thoracic medicine · 2010Article
- Evaluation of modernisation of adult critical care services in England: time series and cost effectiveness analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2009Article
- Rapid response systems in adult academic medical centers.Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety · 2009Article
- Six year audit of cardiac arrests and medical emergency team calls in an Australian outer metropolitan teaching hospital.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007Article
- Recognising and responding to acute illness in patients in hospital.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007Article
- The impact of the introduction of critical care outreach services in England: a multicentre interrupted time-series analysis.Critical care (London, England) · 2007Article
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Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveWe explored the impact of critical care outreach activity on patient and service outcomes and aimed to contribute to developing a typology of critical care outreach services.
designFollowing a sample search of Medline 15 relevant electronic databases were systematically searched from 1996 to 2004. Searches for publications from nine key authors and citations of eight key articles were performed. Hand searches of journals, bibliographies of reports and review articles, and conference abstracts were conducted. Relevant experts were contacted. A further two studies published after the review date were also included. Two reviewers assessed studies for inclusion, conducted quality assessment and extracted data. Data were synthesised using narrative techniques. MEASUREMENTS AND
resultsSeventeen papers and six brief reports were selected for inclusion from a list of 1,760 titles. As anticipated with a relatively new service such as critical care outreach, there were few controlled trials. There were two randomised controlled trials, 16 uncontrolled before and after studies, three quasi-experimental studies, one controlled before and after study and one post-only controlled study. The most frequent outcomes measured were mortality, cardiac arrest, unplanned critical care admissions from wards, length of stay, and critical care readmission rates.
conclusionsAlthough improvements in patient outcomes were found, the evidence in this review is insufficient to demonstrate this conclusively. The many differences in service delivery do not permit identification of service typology. Our findings point to a need for more comprehensive research of this expanding service in the United Kingdom.
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