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RRS and the Culture of Safety

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Rapid response systems (RRSs) are one of the first patient-centred, organisation-wide, clinician-driven systems. They are designed to improve patient care on a collective and standardised basis. There is variability in the way organisations can successfully implement such systems. The culture of some organisations lends itself to a co-operative and successful implementation of a RRS, while others struggle. Similarly, the implementation of such a unique system will, in turn, influence the culture of the organisation, lending itself to being receptive to other systems designed around patients and their needs.

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  1. The Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research and Intensive Care, Liverpool Hospital, Locked Bag 7103, Liverpool BC, NSW, 1871, Australia

    Ken Hillman MBBS, FRCA, FCICM, FRCP, MD

  2. The Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Hadis Nosrati PhD

  3. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Level 6, 75 Talavera Road, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia

    Jeffrey Braithwaite PhD

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  1. Department of Surgery, Critical Care, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, New York, USA

    Michael A. DeVita

  2. The Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research and Intensive Care, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool BC, New South Wales, Australia

    Ken Hillman

  3. Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

    Rinaldo Bellomo

  4. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

    Mandy Odell

  5. Intensive Care Unit, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

    Daryl A. Jones

  6. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Bradford D. Winters

  7. Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA

    Geoffrey K. Lighthall

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Hillman, K., Nosrati, H., Braithwaite, J. (2017). RRS and the Culture of Safety. In: DeVita, M., et al. Textbook of Rapid Response Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39391-9_6

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