Rapid response team

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
Synonymous names:	RRT team; Team providing a rapid response
METEOR identifier:	592338
Registration status:	Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Definition:	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:	Admitted patient care.

Collection and usage attributes
Comments:	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:	Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care/Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	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:	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