Autor: DeVita, Michael A.; Hillman, Ken; Bellomo, Rinaldo (Eds.)
Medical Emergency Teams
1st Edition 2006, 296 p. 50 illus., Softcover

About the book:

Written by the world's leading innovators in the development of medical emergency teams, this book provides the necessary framework for healthcare professionals and administrators who want to incorporate this concept into their own patient safety and quality improvement programs. Topics covered include controversies and challenges in patient safety, description of various MET models, guidelines for implementing a successful program, and instruction on how to measure outcomes.

Hospital patient safety.- Patient safety: top-down or bottom-up?.- Why the current system fails.- Quality of critical care before ICU admission.- Changing nature of modern hospitals.- Acute medicine as a specialty.- Potential impact of trainees on outcome.- Matching level of illness with level of care.- The MET system: what is a MET?.- MET-type systems.- Critical care outreach teams.- Designing patient safety into graduate medical education.- Hospital size & location and MET feasibility.- METs as a QI tool: finding and correcting errors that matter.- Nursing perspectives.- General principles of implementing METs.- Organizational issues.- Equipment.- Personnel.- Overcoming political hurdles.- Obtaining financial support.- METs in teaching hospitals.- Teaching organized crisis teams using human simulators.- Pediatric METs.- Principles of evaluating systems.- Outcome and process measurements/metrics.- Return on investment: are METs worth the cost?