JAMA: Rapid response teams do not prevent cardiac arrests, deaths
Accreditation Connection, December 4, 2008
The introduction of rapid-response teams across a major Midwestern hospital had no effect on the rates of cardiac arrest or deaths, according to a new report from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
According to researchers, cardiac arrests dropped from 11.2 per 1,000 patients to 7.5 per 1,000 patients, a percentage the report called statistically insignificant. Meanwhile, deaths related to cardiac arrest declined slightly as well. Prior to the team’s introduction, 77.9% of patients who went into cardiac arrest died, while after the team was put into place, 76.1% died.
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