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Why hospitals must measure emergency response performance

Emergency response time is increasingly being viewed as a core indicator of hospital staff and patient safety performance. While traditional safety metrics, such as falls, infections, and sentinel events, document what has already happened, response time reveals how well a system performs while an incident is still unfolding, when intervention can still change the outcome.

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