Paul Sharek MD, MPH

Publication Details

  • Effect of a rapid response team on hospital-wide mortality and code rates outside the ICU in a Children's Hospital.

    Sharek PJ, Parast LM, Leong K, Coombs J, Earnest K, Sullivan J, Frankel LR, Roth SJ. JAMA. 2007; 298 (19): 2267-74

    Introduction of a rapid response team (RRT) has been shown to decrease mortality and cardiopulmonary arrests outside of the intensive care unit (ICU) in adult inpatients. No published studies to date show significant reductions in mortality or cardiopulmonary arrests in pediatric inpatients.

    PubMedID: 18029830

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