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" Medical emergency teams : "
edited by Michael A. DeVita, Kenneth Hillman and Rinaldo Bellomo
Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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597071
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Doc. No
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GBA588101b426290
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Title & Author
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Medical emergency teams : : Implementation and outcome measurement /\ edited by Michael A. DeVita, Kenneth Hillman and Rinaldo Bellomo
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Publication Statement
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New York :: Springer,, 2006
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Page. NO
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xx, 296 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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ISBN
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0387279202 (pbk.)
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: 9780387279206
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
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Measuring and improving safety -- The evolution of the health care system -- Process change in health care institutions: top-down or bottom-up? -- The challenge of predicting in-hospital iatrogenic deaths -- Overview of hospital medicine -- Medical trainees and patient safety -- Matching levels of care with levels of illness -- General principles of medical emergency teams -- Potential sociological and political barriers to medical emergency team implementation -- Overview of various medical emergency team models -- Early goal-directed therapy -- Nurse-led medical emergency teams: a recipe for success in community hospitals -- ICU without walls: a New York City model -- Hospital size and location and the feasibility of the medical emergency team -- Medical emergency teams in teaching hospitals -- The nurse's perspective -- The hospital administrator's perspective -- Personnel resources for crisis response -- Equipment, medications, and supplies for a medical emergency team response -- Resident training and the medical emergency team -- Teaching organized crisis team functioning using human simulators -- Information systems considerations: integration of medical emergency team clinical indicators -- Evaluating complex system interventions in patient safety -- Integrating MET into a patient safety program -- Are medical emergency teams worth the cost?
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Subject
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Medical emergencies
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Subject
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Emergency medicine
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Subject
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Emergency Medicine
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Subject
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Safety Management
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Dewey Classification
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616.025
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LC Classification
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RC86.7.M443 2006
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RC86.7.M443 2006
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Added Entry
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DeVita, M. A
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Hillman, Ken
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Bellomo, R., (Rinaldo),1956-
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