Evaluating effectiveness of medical emergency teams
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Medical emergency teams: implementation and outcome measurement
Technical advances in critical care medicine have seen the rapid development and expansion of the specialty. Inevitably, this has created a dichotomy between the standards of care in the intensive care unit and those on general wards. To redress this balance, teams of staff trained in critical care have been established in some institutions to deliver critical care throughout the hospital regar...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0832-610X,1496-8975
DOI: 10.1007/bf03026877