Stop emergencies before they happen.
Rapid response teams (RRTs) continue to be a successful strategy for improving patient outcomes and have been proven to decrease mortality rates. These teams, sometimes known as Medical Emergency Teams (METs), respond to patients with declining conditions and can prevent potential emergencies before they occur.
The RRT concept was born in Australia and is growing throughout the world in such countries as the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the US, and beyond. 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.
A universal approach to a universal concern
Although healthcare organizations around the globe may differ substantially, the RRT methodology can be implemented regardless of culture or unique organizational history.
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.
Rapid Response Teams, Global Edition: Proven Strategies for Successful Implementation 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 get the tools and tips 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.
If you're considering implementing an RRT, but you don't know where to start, look no further than Rapid Response Teams, Global Edition: Proven Strategies for Successful Implementation. Author Della M. Lin, MD, provides straightforward tips, successful case studies, and expert advice that healthcare professionals everywhere can use to get this program started in their hospitals.
Packed with forms and case studies, this resource:
- defines the RRT concept and how it can benefit your organization
- provides lessons learned through case studies of hospitals that have successfully implemented RRTs, including a case study from Canada
- identifies how to overcome obstacles that arise during the implementation process
- guides you through RRT implementation, offering tips on using SBAR to improve communication
- examines how to monitor and share RRT outcomes
Once you decide to employ these innovative teams at your facility, Rapid Response Teams, Global Edition: Proven Strategies for Successful Implementation will help you at every step along the way. Discover the tools, best practices, and tips that have allowed some hospitals to reduce adverse events by as much as 50%.
Online tools can be customized to your facility!
Rapid Response Teams, Global Edition features useful tools to help you through RRT implementation. To download customizable forms, policies, and checklists related to this book, please visit HCPro’s global Web site. Take a look at the all the tools available:
- Example for Algorithm for Rapid Response Team Call
- INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center DUCS Criteria Card
- Emergency protocols for non-physician RRTs
- Sample hospital policy
- Implementation & Results of a Medical Emergency Team
- Sample Graphs for Outcomes
- Pediatric Criteria for Calling the Rapid Response Team
- Queen's Medical Center baseline review of codes outside ICU
- Rapid Response Team Call Card
- Rapid Response Team Evaluation Form
- Rapid Response Team Log
- Septic Screen Alert Checklist
- Medical Emergency Team Call Record
- Microsoft Excel tool for tracking indicators
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 U.S. 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 Institute Faculty in Colorado. 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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