Using Medical Emergency Teams to detect preventable adverse events
Using Medical Emergency Teams to detect preventable adverse events is a scholarly work, published in 2009 in ''Critical Care''. The main subjects of the publication include medical emergency, rapid response team, medicine, emergency medicine, adverse effect, MEDLINE, emergency department, alarm fatigue, near miss, patient safety, and intensive care medicine. The authors describe how authors used MET calls to systematically identify preventable adverse events in an academic tertiary care hospital, and describe the authors' surveillance results. Methods For four weeks authors collected standard information on consecutive MET calls.