Impact of proactive rounding by a rapid response team on patient outcomes at an academic medical center.

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Published in J Hosp Med on September 28, 2012

Authors

Brad W Butcher1, Eric Vittinghoff, Judith Maselli, Andrew D Auerbach

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. brad.butcher@ucsf.edu

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