Abstract:Rapid response teams (RRT) improve speed and quality of urgent inpatient care. Nonetheless, its effectiveness depends on adequate problem identification and fast triggering of institutional procedures. Differences in patient profiles and team experience between medical (Me) or surgical (Su) wards may influence the response times to suspected intrahospital strokes. From January/2016 through April/2019, we retrospectively analyzed data in a large tertiary hospital in Brazil. There were proportionally more callin… Show more
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