title: Failure to rescue: a literature review.
abstract: Rapid response teams have been advocated as an intervention to reduce failure to rescue events. Such teams can improve nurse autonomy and control to rescue patients deteriorating in a medical surgical setting. The purpose of this review is to enhance nurse executives' understanding of failure to rescue as a nurse sensitive outcome, tested interventions, and implications for future research. The emergence of failure to rescue as an outcome measure will be initially discussed. Research regarding the relationship between failure to rescue and registered nurse staffing as well as research examining the potential to reduce failure-to-rescue events will be explored.
authors.affiliation: Patient Care Services, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, USA. schmida@upmc.edu
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hoffman
authors.forename: Mary Beth
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Happ
authors.forename: Gail A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: DeVita
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004630:Emergencies / Q000451:nursing*; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000451:nursing; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015401:Nursing Administration Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010360:Patient Transfer; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D012107:Research Design; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000451:nursing*; D016526:Workload