Rapid response teams and recommended ward-based management of acute deterioration: a single-centre retrospective cohort study in an inner-city London (UK) teaching hospital.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES : To describe the associations between Rapid Response Team (RRT) patient review and other predefined clinical management actions, with risk of in-hospital cardiac arrest and in-hospital mortality in the first unplanned admission (UPA) to the adult intensive care unit (ICU) from the ward environment for each patient.To describe a novel RRT assessment tool for ward-based care for patients who were deteriorating.

Design

A retrospective cohort study.

Setting

A large multispecialty, tertiary referral and teaching hospital in England, UK.

Participants

The study included 3175 consecutive adult ICU UPAs from hospital wards over a 6-year period (2014-2019).

Outcome measures

Ward-based management of deterioration prior to ICU admission was assessed by the RRT,

SUBMITTER: Hadfield S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12481366 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature