Effectiveness of Rapid Response Teams and the Importance of Preprints

To the Editor of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences,

We have read with interest the Point of View: “Performance of the Rapid Response Systems in Health Care Improvement: Benefits and Perspectives” by Viviane Cordeiro Veiga and Salomón Soriano Ordinola Rojas, published ahead of print in the International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences on April 15, 2019. Rapid response teams to treat trauma patients in Australia 30 years ago, in 1989. From the outset, the aim was to early recognize signs of deterioration and provide a quick response, hence the name of the methodology. The discussion about the activation criteria is relevant and up to date and was treated in a solid manner by the authors in the introduction of the point of view. Indeed, it is known that this is the cause of part of the heterogeneity of results found in studies on the subject.

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