Failure to rescue (FTR) was first defined in 1992 in a landmark article by Silber and
colleagues as the rate of mortality among patients with a complication. 1 The FTR rate is …

Failure to rescue in the surgical patient: a review : Current Opinion in Critical Care Failure to
rescue in the surgical patient: a review : Current Opinion in Critical Care Log in or Register …

Background Failure to rescue (FTR) refers to death after a major complication. Defining the
optimal context in which to reduce FTR after injury requires knowledge of where and when …

Objectives: Use of failure-to-rescue (FTR) as an indicator of hospital quality has increased
over the past decade, but recent authors have used different sets of complications and …

Objective: To identify hospital staffing models associated with failure to rescue (FTR) rates at
low-and high-performing hospitals. Background: FTR is an important quality measure in …

Failure to rescue (FTR) is an outcome metric that reflects a center's ability to prevent
mortality after a major complication. Identifying the timing and location of FTR events could …

BACKGROUND Failure to rescue (FTR) is defined as death after an adverse event. The
original metric was derived in elective surgical populations and reclassifies deaths not …

Background We aimed to examine whether safety-net burden is a significant predictor of
failure-to-rescue (FTR) after major abdominal surgery controlling for patient and hospital …

Background: Failure to rescue (FTR), the rate of death in patients suffering 1 of 6 in-hospital
complications, is an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety …

Purpose of review: To explore the current literature on the failure to rescue and rescue
surgery concepts, to identify the key items for decreasing the failure to rescue rate and …