Tài liệu Báo cáo y học: "Demonstrating the benefit of medical emergency teams (MET) proves more difficult tha

Patients with cardiac arrests or who die in general wards have often received delayed or inadequate care. Medical emergency teams (METs) are trained medical professionals that respond quickly to a change in a patient’s condition based on the premise that early intervention may prevent further deterioration and/or death. We investigated whether implementation of a medical emergency team (MET) system could reduce the incidence of cardiac arrests, unplanned admissions to intensive care units (ICU), and deaths.