Prospective controlled trial of effect of medical emergency team on postoperative morbidity and mortality rates*

Bellomo, Rinaldo; Goldsmith, Donna; Uchino, Shigehiko; Buckmaster, Jonathan; K. Hart, Graeme; Opdam, Helen; Silvester, William; Doolan, Laurie; A. Gutteridge, G.

doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000119428.02968.9e

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Prospective controlled trial of effect of medical emergency team on postoperative morbidity and mortality rates*

Published in Critical Care Medicine • Apr 1, 2004

Authors:

Rinaldo Bellomo

Donna Goldsmith

Shigehiko Uchino

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the introduction of an intensive care unit-based medical emergency team, responding to hospital-wide preset criteria of physiologic instability, would decrease the rate of predefined adverse outcomes in patients having major surgery. DESIGN: Prospective, controlled be...

Subject

Medicine

Relative risk

Emergency medicine

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