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Objective:

To identify whether delays in rapid response team activation contributed to worse patient outcomes (mortality and morbidity).

Design:

Retrospective observational cohort study including all rapid response team activations in 2012.

Setting:

Tertiary academic medical center.

Patients:

All those 18 years old or older who had a rapid response team call activated. Vital sign data were abstracted from individual patient electronic medical records for the 24 hours before the rapid response team activation took place. Patients were considered to have a delayed rapid response team activation if more than 1 hour passed between the first appearance in the record of an abnormal vital sign meeting rapid response team criteria and the activation of an rapid response team.

Interventions:

None.

Measurements and Main Results:

A total of 1,725 patients were included in the analysis. Data were compared between those who …