Vital Signs Predict Rapid-Response Team Activation within Twelve Hours of Emergency Department Admission
Introduction: Rapid-response teams (RRTs) are interdisciplinary groups created to rapidly assess and treat patients with unexpected clinical deterioration marked by decline in vital signs. Traditionally emergency department (ED) disposition is partially based on the patients’ vital signs (VS) at the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2016-05-01
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Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/93r2v5j0 |