Tài liệu Báo cáo y học: "Medical emergency teams and rapid response triggers - the ongoing quest for the ‘per

We read with interest the article by Iyengar and colleagues [1] on the impact of standardized implementation of medical emergency teams (METs) for the early identification and management of acutely deteriorating patients on the ward. The vast majority (88%) of all preventable adverse events were classified as ‘therapeutic errors’. The authors have to be commended for their proactive patient safety approach by implementation of a standardized method for root cause analysis and classification of preventable adverse events.