The Medical journal of Australia
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Rates of in-hospital arrests, deaths and intensive care admissions: the effect of a medical emergency team.
To evaluate the effectiveness of a medical emergency team (MET) in reducing the rates of selected adverse events. ⋯ The MET hospital had fewer unanticipated ICU/HDU admissions, with no increase in in-hospital arrest rate or total death rate. The non-DNR deaths were lower compared with one of the other hospitals; however, we did not adjust for DNR practices. We suggest that the MET concept is worthy of further study.