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Reducing in-hospital cardiac arrests and hospital mortality by introducing a medical emergency team
Intensive Care Medicine, 09/21/09
Konrad D et al. – Implementing the MET team was associated with significant improvement in both cardiac arrest rate and overall adjusted hospital mortality. Significant reductions in hospital mortality for un–operated surgical patients as well as for medical patients were also seen. Thus, introduction of the MET seemed to improve outcome for hospitalized patients.
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