AHRQ Patient Safety Network ► Rapid response systems and collective (in)competence: an exploratory analysis of intraprofessional and interprofessional activation factors.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network



Rapid response systems and collective (in)competence: an exploratory analysis of intraprofessional and interprofessional activation factors.

Kitto S, Marshall SD, McMillan SE, et al. J Interprof Care. 2014 Nov 28; [Epub ahead of print].

Clinical staff often fail to call rapid response teams to evaluate deteriorating patients, even when objective criteria for calling the team are met. This qualitative study of physicians and nurses at an Australian hospital found that an impaired culture of safety can result in failure to use the rapid response team when appropriate and can also lead to using the team as a workaround to compensate for poor interdisciplinary communication.

PubMed citation 
Available at 

Related Resources

COMMENTARY

The inevitability of physician burnout: implications for interventions.

Montgomery A. Burnout Res. 2014;1:50-56.

STUDY

Incidents resulting from staff leaving normal duties to attend medical emergency team calls.

Cheung W, Sahai V, Mann-Farrar J, et al; Concord Medical Emergency Team (MET) Incidents Study Investigators. Med J Aust. 2014;201:528-531.

TOOLKIT

Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2013.

STUDY

Using crew resource management and a 'read-and-do checklist' to reduce failure-to-rescue events on a step-down unit.

Young-Xu Y, Fore AM, Metcalf A, Payne K, Neily J, Sculli GL. Am J Nurs. 2013;113:51-57.

View all related resources...