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

AbstractObjectives: To determine whether earlier clinical intervention by a medical emergency team prompted by clinical instability in a patient could reduce the incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrest in hospital.Design: A non-randomised, population based study before (1996) and a...

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Published in:	BMJ Vol. 324; no. 7334; pp. 387 - 390
Main Authors:	Buist, Michael D, Moore, Gaye E, Bernard, Stephen A, Waxman, Bruce P, Anderson, Jeremy N, Nguyen, Tuan V
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London British Medical Journal Publishing Group 16-02-2002 British Medical Association BMJ Publishing Group LTD BMJ Publishing Group BMJ
Edition:	International edition
Subjects:	Adult Aged Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy Biological and medical sciences Cardiac arrest Death Emergency and intensive cardiocirculatory care. Cardiogenic shock. Coronary intensive care Emergency management Emergency services Emergency Treatment - methods Emergency Treatment - standards Female Heart Arrest - mortality Heart Arrest - prevention & control Heart attacks Hospital admissions Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499 Hospital Mortality - trends Hospitals Hospitals, Teaching - organization & administration Humans Incidence Intensive care Intensive care medicine Intervention Logistic Models Male Medical referrals Medical sciences Middle Aged Mortality Nurses Odds Ratio Patient Care Team - organization & administration Resuscitation Risk Factors Teaching hospitals Victoria - epidemiology Victoria Australia Human Prevention Cardiocirculatory arrest Emergency department Q factor Follow up study Mortality Health care staff Cardiovascular disease Incidence
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