Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Medical emergency teams and rapid response triggers - the ongoing quest for the ‘perfect’ patient safety system. | Available online http content 13 5 420 Letter Medical emergency teams and rapid response triggers - the ongoing quest for the perfect patient safety system Philip F Stahel1 and Philip S Mehler2 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Department of Neurosurgery Denver Health Medical Center University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Bannock Street Denver CO 80204 USA 2Department of Patient Safety and Quality and Department of Internal Medicine Denver Health Medical Center University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Bannock Street Denver Denver CO 80204 USA Corresponding author Philip F Stahel Published 9 October 2009 This article is online at http content 13 5 420 2009 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2009 13 420 doi cc8052 See related research by Iyengar et al. http content 13 4 R126 We read with interest the article by Iyengar and colleagues 1 on the impact of standardized implementation of medical emergency teams METs for the early identification and management of acutely deteriorating patients on the ward. The vast majority 88 of all preventable adverse events were classified as therapeutic errors . The authors have to be commended for their proactive patient safety approach by implementation of a standardized method for root cause analysis and classification of preventable adverse events. We and others have recently proposed an alternative model to the MET namely one based on defined clinical triggers to initiate a rapid response escalation 2-4 . A clinical triggers system overcomes the classic limitations of the MET system as related to an overuse of resources and the fragmentation of patient care. The clinical triggers program established at Denver Health Medical Center involves a standardized afferent limb of patient identification based on objective physiological response triggers for a rapid response escalation. The efferent limb is provided by the designated primary house staff .
