Rapid Response Teams

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Get involved ahead of the curve

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement piqued interest in rapid response teams (RRT) with the announcement of its 100,000 Lives Campaign. Since then, the concept has garnered so much media attention—from the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times to small-town newspapers and television stations—that many prospective patients are choosing hospitals based on whether they employ these life-saving crews.

Today, more than 2,500 hospitals are reaping the benefits of RRTs—established to catch emergencies before they occur—reducing adverse events in critically ill patients. HCPro can help you save lives and gain a competitive edge with its cutting-edge book, Rapid Response Teams: Proven Strategies for Successful Implementation.

Your facility may have time or financial constraints, but when you consider the findings of a clinical trial involving RRTs, you can't afford not to start an RRT:

A pioneering Australian medical center reported a 50% drop in adverse events and a 36.9% reduction in the postoperative hospital mortality rate after implementing an RRT. This book gives you all the tools and information you need to achieve similar results at your facility, saving you time, money, and patient lives!

You know the benefits; now all you need is the know-how to put a team in place.

Just by considering what an RRT could mean for your facility, you've taken the first step toward building a program that could alter the future of your organization. The next step is taking advantage of a program loaded with proven implementation strategies.

HCPro to the rescue!If you're considering implementing an RRT, but you don't know where to start, look no further than Rapid Response Teams: Proven Strategies for Successful Implementation. This book—loaded with forms and case studies—will push your organization over the hump by:

• explaining the RRT concept and defining the need within your organization · identifying lessons learned through case studies of hospitals that have successfully implemented RRTs
• explaining how to overcome obstacles that arise during the implementation process
• providing guidance on what should happen during RRT implementation, including tips on using SBAR to improve communication
• examining how to monitor and share RRT outcomes

Intended audience:

• performance improvement coordinators
• quality coordinators
• patient safety directors
• directors of nursing
• ICU nursesdirectors of critical care medicine

Meet the author

Della M. Lin, MD, is a former inaugural Health Forums Patient Safety Leadership fellow—a joint collaboration between the American Hospital Association and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF). She has been a speaker at the last two NPSF Annual Patient Safety Congresses and has also been a speaker for several HCPro, Inc., audioconferences relating to patient safety and is a member of the Estes Park (CO) Institute Faculty. Lin is a practicing anesthesiologist, and has served on the American Society of Anesthesiologists Patient Safety Committee. She is also the executive director of continuing medical education at the Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu. Lin has more than 15 years of physician leadership experience, having served as department chief of anesthesiology, on hospital medical executive committees (MEC), peer review and credentialing committees, and currently as a board member at various healthcare entities. She is a consultant, lecturer, and author.

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