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Patients admitted to modern hospitals are complex and have increasing co-morbidity.1 Several studies from multiple countries around the world reveal that patients suffer serious adverse events (SAEs) that prolong length of hospital stay, and may result in permanent disability and death.

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Jones, D., Bellomo, R. (2011). MET: Physician-Led RRSs. 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_20

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