The Rapid Response Team (RRT) interventions is designed to prevent deaths in patients who are progressively failing outside the ICU through the intervention of specially trained teams of health professionals.

Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) bring critical care expertise to staff outside the ICU. The measures for this intervention are: Codes per 1,000 discharges, percentage of codes outside ICU and utilization of RRT. Early results indicate that RRTs are a challenge to implement due to the need to identify, mobilize and fund expert staff and ultimately build knowledge and support across the organization.