Best-practice protocols: implementing a rapid response system of care.
Rapid response teams provide a method for sending experts to the bedside to assist with patient evaluation and treatment before clinical deterioration progresses to cardiac arrest.
Simmonds
Terri C
TC
Safe and Reliable Health Care, LLP, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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