The Patient Characteristics and Mortality of Code Blue Calls

This study aimed to retrospectively examine patients evaluated by the Code Blue team on a Code Blue call in our hospital between 2009 and 2013. Primary outcome: an examination of the survival rates and demographic data of the patients evaluated as an emergency by a Code Blue call in the period 2009-2013.Secondary outcome: to determine the rates of false Code Blue calls, the clinics giving Code Blue calls and the relationship between the times of Code Blue calls and mortality.Inclusion criteria: patients throughout the whole hospital for whom a Code Blue form was completed and who were evaluated by the Code Blue team on a Code Blue call. Exclusion criteria: patients who refused treatment