Calls for medical emergency team and cardiac arrest calls in an outer metropolitan teaching hospital

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Medical emergency team calls	n=213	n=294	n=215	n=236	n=265	n=311
No (%) of patients died in hospital	76 (35)	80 (27)	65 (30)	70 (29)	67 (25)	69 (22)
Cardiac arrest calls	n=69	n=70	n=41	n=41	n=26	n=24
No (%) invalid	22 (31)	18 (25)	7 (17)	5 (12)	1 (3)	5 (20)
Hospital admissions	n=28 539	n=27 517	n=29 715	n=32 299	n=32 356	n=35 644
Cardiac arrests per 1000 hospital admissions	2.4	2.5	1.38	1.26	0.8	0.66