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Why emergency response time is becoming a core hospital safety metric

Emergency response time is rarely treated as a core safety metric in hospitals, yet it often determines how incidents actually unfold. While compliance programs and traditional reporting focus on outcomes after the fact, lost minutes during staff safety events, isolated emergencies, and even nonclinical incidents can quietly introduce risk long before formal harm is documented.

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