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Table 4 Hospital mortality of patients requiring ICU admission due to ward cardiac arrest and ICU readmission*

From: Introduction of Medical Emergency Teams in Australia and New Zealand: a multi-centre study

Outcome measure

Percentage survival in the year before MET introduction, mean (SD)

Percentage survival in the year after MET introduction, mean (SD)

P value

Cardiac arrests admitted from ward to ICU

37.9 (30.6)

38.3 (27.0)

0.779

ICU readmissions following ICU discharge

79.4 (16.2)

77.5 (20.8)

0.808

  1. ICU, intensive care unit; MET, Medical Emergency Team; SD, standard deviation.
  2. *Data from the 12 months before and after introduction of an MET service into 29 hospitals in Australia and New Zealand
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