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Review
. 2015 Mar 16;19(1):104.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-015-0807-y.

Rapid response systems: are they really effective?

Claudio Sandroni  1 , Sonia D'Arrigo  2 , Massimo Antonelli  3
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Review

Rapid response systems: are they really effective?

Claudio Sandroni et al. Crit Care. .

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.

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Figure 1
Pooled risk ratio of adult in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest after rapid response system implementation.
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Pooled risk ratio of adult hospital mortality after rapid response system implementation.
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