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Patients reviewed by rapid response teams have a high and variable mortality rate, and limitations of care are commonly used. Data on the long-term outcomes of RRT are lacking and needed.

ED-NEWS is independently associated with in-hospital and 30-day mortality with acceptable discrimination capability. Direct and late ICU admissions occurred with comparable NEWSs at admission.

NEWS discriminates high risk patients in a heterogenic general ward population independently of multiple confounding factors. The conventional dichotomised activation criteria were not able to detect high risk patients.