Rapid response teams: how are they best used?

Thomas Rozen¹, Warwick Butt^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Intensive Care Unit, Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Thomas.Rozen@rch.org.au.
² Intensive Care Unit, Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Murdoch Childrens Research Center, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Editorial

Thomas Rozen et al. Crit Care. 2016.

. 2016 Aug 19:19:253.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-016-1425-z.

Thomas Rozen¹, Warwick Butt^{2

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4}

¹ Intensive Care Unit, Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Thomas.Rozen@rch.org.au.
² Intensive Care Unit, Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Murdoch Childrens Research Center, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

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Unexpected versus all-cause mortality as the endpoint for investigating the effects of a Rapid Response System in hospitalized patients.
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