Figure 1From: Reduction in hospital-wide mortality after implementation of a rapid response team: a long-term cohort studyAnnual mortality and cardiopulmonary-arrest code rates before and after rapid response team (RRT) implementation. The preintervention period was January 1, 2003, through December 31, 2005. The postintervention period was January 1, 2006, through December 31, 2008. The RRT was introduced over a 6-month period beginning January 2006. Patients admitted throughout introduction of the RRT were included in the postintervention group. Rates of hospital-wide deaths, out-of-ICU deaths, and out-of-ICU codes are provided as events per 1, 000 discharges.Back to article page