Table 2 Mortality and cardiopulmonary arrest codes before and after rapid response team implementation
| Â | Events before RRTa (n= 77, 021) | Events after RRTa (n= 79, 013) | RRTs activated on hospital serviceb (n= 855) | Relative risk of event (95% CI) | P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Deaths hospital-wide | 1, 194 (15.50) | 1, 086 (13.74) | -- | 0.887 (0.817-0.963) | 0.004 |
Deaths by inpatient hospital service | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
   Medicine | 462 (16.91) | 303 (10.28) | 637 (74.5) | 0.608 (0.526-0.702) | < 0.001 |
   Surgery | 66 (5.65) | 51 (4.32) | 31 (3.6) | 0.765 (0.531-1.102) | 0.150 |
   Pediatrics | 13 (1.37) | 8 (0.91) | 2 (0.2) | 0.664 (0.275-1.602) | 0.362 |
   Intensive care | 649 (115.40) | 722 (124.70) | 12 (1.4) | 1.081 (0.972-1.201) | 0.152 |
   Obstetrics | 0 (0.00) | 0 (0.00) | 2 (0.2) | -- | -- |
   Rehabilitation | 2 (1.07) | 1 (0.55) | 56 (6.5) | 0.515 (0.047-5.681) | 0.588 |
   Psychiatry | 2 (0.14) | 1 (0.07) | 71 (8.3) | 0.476 (0.043-5.255) | 0.545 |
Deaths out-of-ICU | 545 (7.08) | 364 (4.61) | -- | 0.651 (0.570-0.743) | < 0.001 |
Cardiopulmonary-arrest codes out-of-ICU | 253 (3.28) | 128 (1.62) | -- | 0.493 (0.399-0.610) | < 0.001 |