Medical Emergency Teams [recurso electrónico] : Implementation and Outcome Measurement / edited by Michael A. DeVita, Kenneth Hillman, Rinaldo Bellomo.

Mets and Patient Safety -- Measuring and Improving Safety -- The Evolution of the Health Care System -- Process Change in Health Care Institutions: Top-Down or Bottom-Up? -- The Challenge of Predicting In-Hospital Iatrogenic Deaths -- Overview of Hospital Medicine -- Medical Trainees and Patient Safety -- Matching Levels of Care with Levels of Illness -- Creating a Mets System -- General Principles of Medical Emergency Teams -- Potential Sociological and Political Barriers to Medical Emergency Team Implementation -- Overview of Various Medical Emergency Team Models -- Early Goal-Directed Therapy -- Nurse-Led Medical Emergency Teams: A Recipe for Success in Community Hospitals -- ICU Without Walls: A New York City Model -- Hospital Size and Location and the Feasibility of the Medical Emergency Team -- Medical Emergency Teams in Teaching Hospitals -- The Nurse's Perspective -- The Hospital Administrator's Perspective -- Personnel Resources for Crisis Response -- Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Medical Emergency Team Response -- Measuring Outcomes -- Resident Training and the Medical Emergency Team -- Teaching Organized Crisis Team Functioning Using Human Simulators -- Information Systems Considerations: Integration of Medical Emergency Team Clinical Indicators -- Evaluating Complex System Interventions in Patient Safety -- Integrating MET into a Patient Safety Program -- Are Medical Emergency Teams Worth the Cost?.

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.