Association of Rapid Response Teams With Hospital Mortality in Medicare Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although rapid response teams have been widely promoted as a strategy to reduce unexpected hospital deaths, most studies of rapid response teams have not adjusted for secular trends in mortality before their implementation. We examined whether implementation of a rapid response team was associated with a reduction in hospital mortality after accounting for preimplementation mortality trends.

Methods

Among 56 hospitals in Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation linked to Medicare, we calculated the annual rates of case mix-adjusted mortality for each hospital during 2000 to 2014. We constructed a hierarchical log-binomial regression model of mortality over time (calendar-year), incorporating terms to capture the effect of rapid response teams, to determine whether im

SUBMITTER: Girotra S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9489642 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature