Table 3.

Hospital mortality, incidence of cardiac arrest, and mortality from cardiac arrest before (1996) and after (1999) implementation of medical emergency team

	Before intervention	After intervention
Hospital deaths:
No of deaths	380	393
Rate per 1000 patients	19.67	17.20*
Cardiac arrest:
No of cardiac arrests	73	47
Rate per 1000 patients	3.77	2.05*
No (%) of deaths	56 (76.7)	26 (55.3)*
Unplanned admissions to intensive care:
No of admissions	45	78
Rate per 1000 patients	2.3	3.4
No (%) of deaths	15 (33.3)	23 (29.5)

^*Significant difference before and after intervention, P<0.001.