Characteristics and outcome of rapid response team patients ≥75 years old: a prospective observational cohort study

BACKGROUND: Rapid response teams (RRTs) attend severely ill general ward patients whose average 30-day mortality is near 30%. A major part of RRT patients are over 75 years old, but there are no studies on the characteristics and outcome of this geriatric RRT population. We compared the characterist...

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Autores principales: Tirkkonen, Joonas, Setälä, Piritta, Hoppu, Sanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5544988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28778172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-017-0423-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5544988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28778172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-017-0423-8

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