Association of Time to Rapid Response Team Activation With Patient Outcomes Using a Range of Physiologic Deterioration Thresholds.

ABSTRACT: Clinical deterioration of hospitalized patients is common and can lead to critical illness and death. Rapid response teams (RRTs) assess and treat high-risk patients with signs of clinical deterioration to prevent further worsening and subsequent adverse outcomes. Whether activation of the RRT early in the course of clinical deterioration impacts outcomes, however, remains unclear. We sought to characterize the relationship between increasing time to RRT activation after physiologic deterioration and short-term patient outcomes.

Design

Retrospective multicenter cohort study.

Setting

Three academic hospitals in Pennsylvania.

Patients

We included the RRT activation of a hospitalization for non-ICU inpatients greater than or equal to 18 years old.

Interventions

Non

SUBMITTER: Mitchell OJL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9635041 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature