Vital Signs Predict Rapid-Response Team Activation within Twelve Hours of Emergency Department Admission
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Vital Signs Predict Rapid-Response Team Activation Within Twelve Hours of Emergency Department Admission
INTRODUCTION Rapid-response teams (RRTs) are interdisciplinary groups created to rapidly assess and treat patients with unexpected clinical deterioration marked by decline in vital signs. Traditionally emergency department (ED) disposition is partially based on the patients' vital signs (VS) at the time of hospital admission. We aimed to identify which patients will have RRT activation within 1...
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عنوان ژورنال: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1936-900X,1936-9018
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2016.2.28501