PANEL DISCUSSION: CRISIS CRITERIA - DEFINING THE SERIOUSLY ILL — QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

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1. Question: Do outcome measures impact the implementation and maintenance of METS?

2. Question: Interventions and their timing are essential in patient care and improved outcomes. Is there data on the timing of the intervention in METS?. If protocols and standard order sets accompanied METS, then we may see a difference in outcomes.

3. Question: Is there data describing nurse patient ratios on METS outcomes?

4. Comment: Please comment on how the quality of the implementation process and the length of time it takes impacts the establishment and success of METS.

5. Question: Who is the team leader - physician or non-physician?. If a physician, was the physician ICU trained?