Table 1 Patients seen by rapid response teams: demographics and interventions
Total | UK | Netherlands | Denmark | Australia | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A. Demographics | ||||||
Number of patients | 1133 | 722 | 199 | 124 | 59 | 29 |
Number of centres | 43 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
Age (years) | 67 (18) | 67 (19) | 67 (15) | 71(13) | 64 (21) | 62 (18) |
Male | 581 (51%) | 364 (50%) | 104 (52%) | 70 (56%) | 30 (51%) | 13 (45%) |
Originally from home | 950 (84%) | 608 (84%) | 179 (90%) | 89 (72%) | 49(83%) | 24 (83%) |
Admitted under a medical specialty. | 764 (67%) | 500 (69%) | 123 (62%) | 92 (74%) | 30 (51%) | 19 (66%) |
Frailty level, percent that were ≥ 5a | 40% | 41% | 32% | 50% | 29% | 41% |
Patients per nurse, percent at 1–4/5–8/≥ 9 | 28/52/20 (%) | 20/61/19 (%) | 29/40/31 (%) | 47/34/20 (%) | 71/25/0 (%) | 48/41/10 (%) |
Existing care limitation in place | 208 (18%) | 122 (17%) | 34 (17%) | 35 (28%) | 11 (19%) | 6 (21%) |
Mean NEWS (SD) | 6.7 (3.2) | 6.1 (3.1) | 7.7 (3.0) | 8.8 (302) | 6.5 (3.3) | 6.9 (2.8) |
Mean qSOFA (SD) | 1.2 (0.8) | 1.1 (0.8) | 1.3 (0.8) | 1.3 (0.8) | 1.2 (0.8) | 1.2 (0.7) |
On antibiotics prior to RRT call | 648 (57%) | 440 (61%) | 108 (54%) | 68 (55%) | 18 (31%) | 14 (55%) |
B. Interventions | ||||||
On antibiotics following RRT call | 659 (58%) | 485 (67%) | 119 (60%) | 31 (25%) | 8 (14%) | 14 (48%) |
Transferred to ICU | 339 (30%) | 151 (21%) | 120 (60%) | 42 (34%) | 15 (25%) | 11 (38%) |
Mean RRT-ICU time (h) | 9.2 | 12.5 | 3.4 | 6.3 | 24.8 | 13.1 |
Needed surgical operation | 21 (2%) | 10 (1%) | 6 (3%) | 3 (2%) | 2 (3%) | 0 |
Full code death | 16 (1%) | 12 (2%) | 1 (1%) | 2 (2%) | 1 (2%) | 0 |
Received CPR | 15 (1%) | 11 (2%) | 2 (1%) | 1 (1%) | 1 (2%) | 0 |
Call trigger persisted | 253 (22%) | 145 (20%) | 24 (12%) | 60 (48%) | 17 (29%) | 7 (24%) |
New limitation in care | 188 (17%) | 136 (19%) | 16 (8%) | 23 (19%) | 9 (15%) | 4 (14%) |
Repeat RRT call | 95 (8%) | 73 (10%) | 9 (5%) | 8 (6%) | 3 (5%) | 2 (7%) |