Association of Pediatric Medical Emergency Teams With Hospital Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Implementation of medical emergency teams has been identified as a potential strategy to reduce hospital deaths, because these teams respond to patients with acute physiological decline in an effort to prevent in-hospital cardiac arrest. However, prior studies of the association between medical emergency teams and hospital mortality have been limited and typically have not accounted for preimplementation mortality trends.

Methods

Within the Pediatric Health Information System for freestanding pediatric hospitals, annual risk-adjusted mortality rates were calculated for sites between 2000 and 2015. A random slopes interrupted time series analysis then examined whether implementation of a medical emergency team was associated with lower-than-expected mortality rates

SUBMITTER: Kutty S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5839663 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature