Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 375-382 , April 2010

“Identifying the hospitalised patient in crisis”—A consensus conference on the afferent limb of Rapid Response Systems

  • Michael A. DeVita

      Affiliations

    • West Penn Allegheny Health System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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  • Gary B. Smith

      Affiliations

    • Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK
    • University of Bournemouth, Bournemouth, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Critical Care, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Portsmouth PO6 3LY, UK. Tel.: +44 2392 286306; fax: +44 2392 286326.
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  • Sheila K. Adam

      Affiliations

    • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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  • Inga Adams-Pizarro

      Affiliations

    • Maryland Patient Safety Center, Elkridge, MD, USA
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  • Michael Buist

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    • University of Tasmania Rural Clinical School, Tasmania, Australia
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  • Rinaldo Bellomo

      Affiliations

    • Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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  • Robert Bonello

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    • University of Minnesota & Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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  • Erga Cerchiari

      Affiliations

    • Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy
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  • Barbara Farlow

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    • Patients for Patient Safety Canada, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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  • Donna Goldsmith

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    • Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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  • Helen Haskell

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    • Mothers Against Medical Error, Columbia, SC, USA
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  • Kenneth Hillman

      Affiliations

    • University of New South Wales & The Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
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  • Michael Howell

      Affiliations

    • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Marilyn Hravnak

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    • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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  • Elizabeth A. Hunt

      Affiliations

    • The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • Andreas Hvarfner

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    • University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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  • John Kellett

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    • Nenagh Hospital, Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland
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  • Geoffrey K. Lighthall

      Affiliations

    • Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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  • Anne Lippert

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    • Danish Institute for Medical Simulation, Herlev Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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  • Freddy K. Lippert

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    • Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services, Head Office, The Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
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  • Razeen Mahroof

      Affiliations

    • John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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  • Jennifer S. Myers

      Affiliations

    • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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  • Mark Rosen

      Affiliations

    • North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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  • Stuart Reynolds

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Armando Rotondi

      Affiliations

    • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine & Department of Veterans Affairs, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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  • Francesca Rubulotta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaethesia, Imperial College, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK
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  • Bradford Winters

      Affiliations

    • The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Received 2 November 2009 ,Revised 2 December 2009 ,Accepted 12 December 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.008.

☆☆ This work was support by grants from: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Veterans Affairs, UPMC Center for Quality and Innovation, American College of Chest Physicians, and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00639-X

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.008

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 375-382 , April 2010

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