Incidence of in-hospital cardiac arrest at general wards before and after implementation of an early warning score

Abstract Background In order to reduce the incidence of in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) at general wards, medical emergency teams (MET) were implemented in the Capital Region of Denmark in 2012 as the efferent part of a track and trigger system. The National Early Warning Score (NEWS) system becam...

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Main Authors: Andreas Creutzburg, Dan Isbye, Lars S. Rasmussen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-07-01
Series:BMC Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-021-00469-5