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Use of medical emergency team responses to reduce hospital cardiopulmonary arrests.

DeVita MA, Braithwaite RS, Mahidhara R, Stuart S, Foraida M, Simmons RL; Medical Emergency Response Improvement Team (MERIT).

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Mature rapid response system and potentially avoidable cardiopulmonary arrests in hospital.

Galhotra S, DeVita MA, Simmons RL, Dew MA; Members of the Medical Emergency Response Improvement Team (MERIT) Committee.

Qual Saf Health Care. 2007 Aug;16(4):260-5.PMID: 17693672 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Implementation of a medical emergency team in a large pediatric teaching hospital prevents respiratory and cardiopulmonary arrests outside the intensive care unit.

Brilli RJ, Gibson R, Luria JW, Wheeler TA, Shaw J, Linam M, Kheir J, McLain P, Lingsch T, Hall-Haering A, McBride M.

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007 May;8(3):236-46; quiz 247.PMID: 17417113 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Long term effect of a medical emergency team on cardiac arrests in a teaching hospital.

Jones D, Bellomo R, Bates S, Warrillow S, Goldsmith D, Hart G, Opdam H, Gutteridge G.

Crit Care. 2005;9(6):R808-15. Epub 2005 Nov 16.PMID: 16356230 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Introduction of the medical emergency team (MET) system: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Hillman K, Chen J, Cretikos M, Bellomo R, Brown D, Doig G, Finfer S, Flabouris A; MERIT study investigators.

Lancet. 2005 Jun 18-24;365(9477):2091-7. Erratum in: Lancet. 2005 Oct 1;366(9492):1164. PMID: 15964445 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Introduction of medical emergency teams in Australia and New Zealand: a multi-centre study.

Jones D, George C, Hart GK, Bellomo R, Martin J.

Crit Care. 2008;12(2):R46. Epub 2008 Apr 7.PMID: 18394192 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Rates of in-hospital arrests, deaths and intensive care admissions: the effect of a medical emergency team.

Bristow PJ, Hillman KM, Chey T, Daffurn K, Jacques TC, Norman SL, Bishop GF, Simmons EG.

Med J Aust. 2000 Sep;173(5):236-40.PMID: 11130346 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Patient monitoring and the timing of cardiac arrests and medical emergency team calls in a teaching hospital.

Jones D, Bellomo R, Bates S, Warrillow S, Goldsmith D, Hart G, Opdam H.

Intensive Care Med. 2006 Sep;32(9):1352-6. Epub 2006 Jul 7.PMID: 16826391 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Reduction of paediatric in-patient cardiac arrest and death with a medical emergency team: preliminary results.

Tibballs J, Kinney S, Duke T, Oakley E, Hennessy M.

Arch Dis Child. 2005 Nov;90(11):1148-52.PMID: 16243869 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Reduction of hospital mortality and of preventable cardiac arrest and death on introduction of a pediatric medical emergency team.

Tibballs J, Kinney S.

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009 May;10(3):306-12.PMID: 19307806 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Evaluation of a medical emergency team one year after implementation.

Kenward G, Castle N, Hodgetts T, Shaikh L.

Resuscitation. 2004 Jun;61(3):257-63.PMID: 15172703 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Effect of a rapid response team on hospital-wide mortality and code rates outside the ICU in a Children's Hospital.

Sharek PJ, Parast LM, Leong K, Coombs J, Earnest K, Sullivan J, Frankel LR, Roth SJ.

JAMA. 2007 Nov 21;298(19):2267-74.PMID: 18029830 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The Medical Emergency Team system: a two hospital comparison.

Young L, Donald M, Parr M, Hillman K.

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Use of medical emergency team (MET) responses to detect medical errors.

Braithwaite RS, DeVita MA, Mahidhara R, Simmons RL, Stuart S, Foraida M; Medical Emergency Response Improvement Team (MERIT).

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A new role for the ACNP: the rapid response team leader.

Morse KJ, Warshawsky D, Moore JM, Pecora DC.

Crit Care Nurs Q. 2006 Apr-Jun;29(2):137-46.PMID: 16641650 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Transition from a traditional code team to a medical emergency team and categorization of cardiopulmonary arrests in a children's center.

Hunt EA, Zimmer KP, Rinke ML, Shilkofski NA, Matlin C, Garger C, Dickson C, Miller MR.

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008 Feb;162(2):117-22.PMID: 18250234 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Effects of a medical emergency team on reduction of incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrests in hospital: preliminary study.

Buist MD, Moore GE, Bernard SA, Waxman BP, Anderson JN, Nguyen TV.

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Medical emergency teams at The Ottawa Hospital: the first two years.

Baxter AD, Cardinal P, Hooper J, Patel R.

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The effect of a rapid response team on major clinical outcome measures in a community hospital.

Dacey MJ, Mirza ER, Wilcox V, Doherty M, Mello J, Boyer A, Gates J, Brothers T, Baute R.

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Outreach and Early Warning Systems (EWS) for the prevention of intensive care admission and death of critically ill adult patients on general hospital wards.

McGaughey J, Alderdice F, Fowler R, Kapila A, Mayhew A, Moutray M.

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