Rapid response teams improve outcomes: no.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Factors influencing the activation of the rapid response system for clinically deteriorating patients by frontline ward clinicians: a systematic review.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2017
   Pooled it
2. Development of a novel rapid response event review process for quality improvement.BMJ open quality · 2024
   Article
3. Using rapid response system trigger clusters to characterize patterns of clinical deterioration among hospitalized adult patients.Resuscitation · 2024
   Article
4. Critical care outreach teams: a service without walls.Intensive care medicine · 2023
   Article
5. A study to introduce National Early Warning Scores (NEWS) in care homes: Influence on decision-making and referral processes.Nursing open · 2022
   Article
6. Recognising and responding to deteriorating patients: what difference do national standards make?BMC health services research · 2019
   Article
7. Performance of the Afferent Limb of Rapid Response Systems in Managing Deteriorating Patients: A Systematic Review.Critical care research and practice · 2019
   Review
8. [Unplanned admission or readmission to the intensive care unit : Avoidable or fateful?]Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2018
   Review
9. The Simulation-Based Assessment of Pediatric Rapid Response Teams.The Journal of pediatrics · 2017
   Article
10. Rapid response teams: how are they best used?Critical care (London, England) · 2016
    Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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