Rapid response teams and failure to rescue: one community's experience.
The rapid response team has been proposed as an effective strategy for reducing failure-to-rescue rates among adult inpatients; however, there is little research evidence to support the recommendation. This exploratory study used survey and administrative data to describe rapid response team characteristics and penetration among hospitals in a large metropolitan area while tracking corresponding failure-to-rescue rates among surgical inpatients over 5 years. The findings are promising and invite further investigation.
School of Nursing, University of Houston-Victoria, Victoria, TX 77901, USA. hammer@uhv.edu
Jere A
JA
Hammer
Terry L
TL
Jones
Sharon A
SA
Brown
D000328:Adult; D019985:Benchmarking; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D057209:Hospital Rapid Response Team / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D013781:Texas / Q000453:epidemiology