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Rapid response team

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
Synonymous names:Help on this termRRT team; Team providing a rapid response
METEOR identifier:Help on this term592338
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Definition:Help on this term

A team of designated clinical staff trained to respond rapidly to urgent calls for help when it is suspected or apparent that a patient is experiencing serious clinical deterioration.

Context:Help on this termAdmitted patient care.

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:Help on this term

The goal of the rapid response team (RRT) is early recognition and response to change in a patient’s condition, and to prevent further deterioration and to decide if enhanced levels of care are appropriate (for example, in the high-dependency or intensive care units). The RRT call is a formal hospital-based system, designed for a staff member to alert and call designated RRT staff for help when a patient’s vital signs have fallen outside safe criteria.

Medical emergency teams are one of the 3 main 'rapid response systems' currently in practice in Australian hospitals for delivering emergency health-care assistance. The other 2 are critical care outreach, which may involve external clinicians and resources, and intensive care liaison nurses.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAustralian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care/Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
See also Cardiac arrest team
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
See also Intensive care liaison nurses
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
See also Medical emergency team
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Metadata items which use this glossary item:Help on this term
Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response call date
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response call date, DDMMYYYY
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response call time
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response call time, hhmm
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response call time, hhmm
  • Health, Recorded 27/09/2021
Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response outcome
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response outcome, code N[N]
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response team type
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response team type, code N
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
High priority hospital complications (patient clinical deterioration) NBPDS 2015-
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Hospital rapid response calls cluster
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Intensive care unit
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Incomplete 17/10/2012
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 10/01/2018
Rapid response call date
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Rapid response call time
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Rapid response outcome
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Rapid response team type
  • Health, Standard 04/09/2015
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