Improving the pre-medical emergency team: the case for a behavioural theoretical lens

Improving the pre-medical emergency team: the case for a behavioural theoretical len

Flow diagram of the Medical Emergency Team (MET) status of 172 hospitals in Australian and New Zealand with intensive care units

The diagram does not include hospitals participating in the Medical Emergency Response and Intervention Trial. ANZICS-APD, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Adult Patient Database.<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Introduction of Medical Emergency Teams in Australia and New Zealand: a multi-centre study"</p><p>http://ccforum.com/content/12/2/R46</p><p>Critical Care 2008;12(2):R46-R46.</p><p>Published online 7 Apr 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2447594.</p><p></p

Uptake of Medical Emergency Team (MET) services into various categories of hospitals in Australia and New Zealand for which the MET status is known

Each data point represents the cumulative total of the number of MET services commenced (y-axis) at the corresponding time (x-axis). The commencement of the MET service at Liverpool Hospital (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (June 1989) is omitted for the purpose of presentation. Shown below the x-axis are the first authors of publications related to adverse events and METs: Lee, . [4]; McQuillan, . [16]; Smith and Wood [17]; Buist, . [14]; Goldhill, . [8]; Bristow, . [13]; Buist, . [6]; Hodgetts [21]; Foraida [22]; Bellomo, . [5]; and DeVita [7].<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Introduction of Medical Emergency Teams in Australia and New Zealand: a multi-centre study"</p><p>http://ccforum.com/content/12/2/R46</p><p>Critical Care 2008;12(2):R46-R46.</p><p>Published online 7 Apr 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2447594.</p><p></p

Uptake of Medical Emergency Team (MET) services into those hospitals in Australia and New Zealand for which the MET status is known

Each data point represents the cumulative total of MET services commenced (y-axis) at the corresponding time (x-axis). The commencement of the MET service at Liverpool Hospital (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (June 1989) is omitted for the purpose of presentation. Shown below the x-axis are the first authors of publications related to adverse events and METs: Lee, . [4]; McQuillan, . [16]; Smith and Wood [17]; Buist, . [14]; Goldhill, . [15]; Bristow, . [13]; Buist, . [6]; Hodgetts [21]; Foraida [22]; Bellomo, . [5]; and DeVita [7].<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Introduction of Medical Emergency Teams in Australia and New Zealand: a multi-centre study"</p><p>http://ccforum.com/content/12/2/R46</p><p>Critical Care 2008;12(2):R46-R46.</p><p>Published online 7 Apr 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2447594.</p><p></p

Medical emergency team (MET) calls during periods 08:00–18:00 and 18:00–08:00 comparison

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Circadian pattern of activation of the medical emergency team in a teaching hospital"</p><p>Critical Care 2005;9(4):R303-R306.</p><p>Published online 28 Apr 2005</p><p>PMCID:PMC1269438.</p><p>Copyright © 2005 Jones et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.</p> Shown is a comparison of the percentage of MET calls made during the periods 08:00–18:00 and 18:00–08:00 for the years 2000–2004