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Impact of Hospital Size and Location on Feasibility of RRS

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Modern hospitals are complex institutions that treat increasingly unwell patients with multiple co-morbidities. The aim of such institutions is obviously to improve the outcome of the patients they treat. Unfortunately, this goal is not always achieved and some patients are inadvertently harmed. Studies in the U.S. conducted more than 30 years ago reported that patients admitted to hospital suffer serious adverse events unrelated to their admission diagnosis or underlying medical condition.

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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Austin Health, Heidelberg, 3084, VIC, Australia

    Daryl Jones

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  2. Liverpool Hospital, Dept. Intensive Care, University of New South Wales, Locked Bag 7103, Liverpool, 1871, New South Wales, Australia

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  3. Dept. Intensive Care, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Studley Road, Heidelberg, 3084, Victoria, Australia

    Rinaldo Bellomo

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Jones, D., Bellomo, R. (2011). Impact of Hospital Size and Location on Feasibility of RRS. In: DeVita, M., Hillman, K., Bellomo, R. (eds) Textbook of Rapid Response Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92853-1_14

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