title: Rapid response systems: are they really effective?
abstract: This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2015. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy. sandroni@rm.unicatt.it.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sandroni
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy. sonia.darrigo@virgilio.it.
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: D'Arrigo
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy. m.antonelli@rm.unicatt.it.
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Antonelli
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans