Timing and Location of Medical Emergency Team Activation Is Associated with Seriousness of Outcome: An Observational Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital.

The medical emergency team (MET) can be activated anytime and anywhere in a hospital. We hypothesized the timing and location of MET activation are associated with seriousness of outcome.We tested for an association of clinical outcomes with timing and location using a university hospital cohort in...

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Main Authors: Takeo Kurita, Taka-Aki Nakada, Rui Kawaguchi, Koichiro Shinozaki, Ryuzo Abe, Shigeto Oda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5193425?pdf=render