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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-07-01
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Series: | BMC Emergency Medicine |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-021-00469-5 |