Value of improving patient safety: health economic considerations for rapid response systems-a rapid review of the literature and expert round table.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Failure to rescue deteriorating patients in hospital is a well-researched topic. We aimed to explore the impact of safer care on health economic considerations for clinicians, providers and policymakers.

Design

We undertook a rapid review of the available literature and convened a round table of international specialists in the field including experts on health economics and value-based healthcare to better understand health economics of clinical deterioration and impact of systems to reduce failure to rescue.

Results

Only a limited number of publications have examined the health economic impact of failure to rescue. Literature examining this topic lacked detail and we identified no publications on long-term cost outside the hospital following a deteriorati

SUBMITTER: Subbe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10111929 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature