ArticleAnnals of translational medicine2020
A rapid response team is associated with reduced overall hospital mortality in a Chinese tertiary hospital: a 9-year cohort study.
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- Call characteristics and factors associated with outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrest response teams: a 10-year retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Rapid Response Teams in low and middle-income countries: a scoping review.Critical care science · 2025Article
- Understanding Code Blue Activations: Insights From Early Warning and Palliative Scores in a Tertiary Hospital.Open access emergency medicine : OAEM · 2025Article
- Emergency critical care: closing the gap between onset of critical illness and intensive care unit admission.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2024Review
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- General ward nurses detection and response to clinical deterioration in three hospitals at the Kenyan coast: a convergent parallel mixed methods study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Impact of Rapid Response Teams on Pediatric Care: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Unplanned PICU Admissions and Cardiac Arrests.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The associations between rapid response systems and their components with patient outcomes: A scoping review.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2023Article
- Emergency and rapid response systems: a bibliometric analysis.Annals of translational medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough the evidence for its effectiveness remains uncertainty, rapid response systems are implemented across many hospitals across the world. Increasingly, hospitals in China have recently started to adopt a medical emergency or rapid response team (RRT). Hence, we aimed to determine whether the implementation of an RRT in Chinese hospitals also improved outcomes.
methodsOur hospital is a Joint Commission International (JCI) accredited, tertiary teaching hospital with 1,200 beds. We conducted a retrospective cohort study comparing 60 months after the implementation of the RRT (January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2017) and 36 months before implementation (January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2011). The outcomes included the overall hospital mortality and incidence of codes.
resultsWe analyzed 144,673 non-obstetric hospital admissions and 1,269,621 patient days in the control period and 348,687 non-obstetric hospital admissions and 2,361,913 patient days after the RRT implementation. The RRT was activated 834 times (2.39 calls per 1,000 patients and 0.35 call per 1,000 patient-days). There was no difference in the code rate (0.23
conclusionsRRT implementation was associated with reduced overall hospital mortality in a Chinese tertiary hospital.
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