Hospitalists take on role in rapid response teams with early success.
When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement came out with its campaign to save 100,000 lives last December, one of the most prominent of the six suggestions made was for hospitals to form rapid response teams that would be available to check on at-risk patients before they became critically and irreversibly ill.
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