Rapid response teams: how are they best used?

Rapid response teams: how are they best used?

Many cardiac arrests in hospitalized patients are preceded by warning signs such as derangements in vital signs [1–3]. Despite advancements in many aspects of health care, in-hospital cardiac arrests continue to have a mortality of approximately 80 % [4]. Efforts to reduce mortality in hospitalized patients therefore include a focus on the deteriorating patient in order to provide earlier treat...

Computer Mediated Communication among Virtual Teams: What are “Teams” and how are they “Virtual”?

Introduction This chapter is concerned with computer-mediated communication among virtual teams. A focus on social factors in small group interaction is required to adequately answer the question: what is a “virtual team” and how can it be said to be “virtual?” Understanding the role of social factors in small group interaction is important since governments and corporations around the world ar...

Rapid response systems: are they really effective?

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2015. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.

Gambling Fallacies: What are They and How are They Best Measured?

Objective: Gambling fallacies are believed to be etiologically related to the development of problem gambling. However, this evidence is tenuous due to the lack of consensus on which things constitute gambling fallacies and the adequacy of instruments that ostensibly measure them. The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively identify the main gambling fallacies and examine the reliability an...

Phthalate ester plasticizers--why and how they are used.