Impact of increased calls to rapid response systems on unplanned ICU admissions: Japanese database study

Whether hospital bed number and rapid response system (RRS) call rate is associated with the clinical outcomes of patients who have RRS activations is unknown. We test a hypothesis that hospital volume and RRS call rates are associated with the clinical outcomes of patients with RRSs.

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - November 17, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Takeo Kurita, Taka-aki Nakada, Rui Kawaguchi, Shigeki Fujitani, Kazuaki Atagi, Takaki Naito, Masayasu Arai, Hideki Arimoto, Tomoyuki Masuyama, Shigeto Oda, IHER-J collaborators Source Type: research