Outcomes of Older Hospitalized Patients Requiring Rapid Response Team Activation for Acute Deterioration

Objectives: Rapid response teams are groups of healthcare providers that have been implemented by many hospitals to respond to acutely deteriorating patients admitted to the hospital wards. Hospitalized older patients are at particular risk of deterioration. We sought to examine outcomes of older patients requiring rapid response team activation. Design: Analysis of a prospectively collected registry. Setting: Two hospitals within a single tertiary care level hospital system between 2012 and 2016. Patients: Five-thousand nine-hundred ninety-five patients were analyzed. Comparisons were made between older patients (defined as ≥ 75 yr old) and younger patients. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: All patient information, outcomes, and rapid response team activation information were gathered at the time of rapid response team activation and assessment. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality, analyzed using multivariate logistic regression. Two-thousand three-hundred nine were older patients (38.5%). Of these, 835 (36.2%) died in-hospital, compared with 998 younger patients (27.1%) (adjusted odds ratio, 1.83 [1.54–2.18]; p

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