TY - JOUR T1 - A quality improvement project to reduce the rate of cardiac arrests at Basildon Hospital JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - s3 LP - s3 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.4-2-s3 VL - 4 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Katherine Groom AU - Aarani Mahalingam AU - Georgia Winnett AU - Aroon Lal AU - Pam Charlesworth Y1 - 2017/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/Suppl_2/s3.abstract N2 - To reduce the number of cardiac arrests by 50% by December 2016.Implementation of a multidisciplinary team to perform case-note reviews of patients who triggered an emergency call.Trends were identified that became our primary drivers: completeness of NEW scoringfailure to escalatedelays in clinical reviewsavoidable cardiac arrests.The Cardiac Arrest Team was changed to a Medical Emergency Team (MET).The escalation policy was streamlined. Clearer guidance regarding escalation was provided, including instructing the nurse in charge to … ER -