Validation of a physiological track and trigger score to identify developing critical illness in haematology patients

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 196-206

  Mulligan, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early warning score; Physiological track and trigger score; Sensitivity and specificity; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77954817433     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Allen K. Recognising and managing adult patients who are critically sick. Nursing Times 2004, 100(35). [accessed 05/02/2006]. Available online:. http://www.nursingtimes.net/nav?page=nt.print&resource=1424296.
2. Altman D., Bland M. Diagnostic tests 2: predictive values. British Medical Journal 1994, 309:102.
3. Bell D. What is NEWS in Acute Medicine? (Conference presentation) Society for Acute Medicine 3rd International Conference 2009.
4. Bokhari S., Munir T., Memon S., Byrne J., Russell N., Beed M. Impact of critical care reconfiguration and track-and-trigger outreach team intervention on outcomes of haematology patients requiring intensive care admission. Annals of Hematology 2009, [accessed 16/02/2010]. Available online:. http://www.springerlink.com/content/5lp0870842817515/?p=9d939df7e7ac4d8b9a08aaf4148adca7&pi=39, 10.1007/s00277-009-0853-0.
5. Bossuyt P., Reitsma J., Bruns D., Gatsonis C., Glasziou P., Irwig L., et al. Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiative. British Journal of Medicine 2003, 326:41-44.
6. Bossuyt P., Reitsma J., Bruns D., Gatsonis C., Glasziou P., Irwig L., et al. Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiative. Annals of Internal Medicine 2003, 138(1):40-45.
7. Brubaker P. Do not be statistically cenophobic. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention 2008, 28:420-421.
8. Butler-Williams C. Increasing staff awareness of respiratory rate significance. Nursing Times 2005, 101(27). [accessed 05/02/2006]. Available online:. http://www.nursingtimes.net/nav?page=nt.print&resource=2787144.
9. Cioffi J. Heuristics, servants to intuition, in clinical decision making. Journal of Advanced Nursing 1997, 28:203-208.
10. Denardo S., Oye R., Bellamy P. Efficacy of intensive care for bone marrow transplant patients with respiratory failure. Critical Care Medicine 1989, 17:4-6.
11. Department of Health Comprehensive critical care. A review of adult critical care services 2000, Department of Health, London.
12. Department of Health The national outreach report 2003. Progress in developing services 2003, Department of Health, London, [accessed 12/09/2006]. Available online:. http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/06/35/00/04063500.pdf.
13. Department of Health Quality critical care. Beyond 'comprehensive critical care' 2005, Department of Health, London.
14. Department of Health Critical care minimum data set 2006, Department of Health, London, [accessed 12/09/2006]. Available online:. http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/OrganisationPolicy/EmergencyCare/ModernisingEmergencyCare/ModernisingEmergencyCareArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4126508&chk=KWFfjF.
15. Fan J., Upadhye S., Worster A. Understanding receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine 2006, 8(1):19-20.
16. Freshwater D., Stickley T. The heart of the art: emotional intelligence in nurse education. Nursing Inquiry 2004, 11(2):91-98.
17. Gao H., Harrison D., Adam S., Daly K., Goldhill D., Parry G., et al. Evaluation of available data on physiological track and trigger warning systems. Critical Care 2006, 10(Suppl. 1):415. [accessed 21/09/2006]. Available online:. http://www.ccforum.com/context/pdf/cc4762.pdf.
18. Gao H., McDonnell A., Harrison D., Moore T., Adam S., Daly K., et al. Systematic review and evaluation of physiological track and trigger warning systems for identifying at-risk patients on the ward. Intensive Care Medicine 2007, 33:667-669.
19. Gordon A., Oakervee H., Kaya B., Thomas J., Barnett M., Rohatiner A., et al. Incidence and outcome of critical illness amongst hospitalised patients with haematological malignancy: a prospective observational study of ward and intensive care unit base care. Anaesthesia 2005, 60:340-347.
20. Intensive Care Society Levels of critical care for adult patients 2009, ICS, London, [accessed 15/02/2010]. Available online:. http://www.ics.ac.uk/.
21. Lam T., Mak P., Siu W., Lam M., Cheung T., Rainer T. Validation of a Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) in emergency department observation ward patients. Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine 2006, 13(1):24-30.
22. Lockwood C., Conroy-Hiller T., Page T. Systematic review. Vital signs. JBI Reports 2004, 2:207-230.
23. Massion P., Dive A., Doyen C., Bulpa P., Jamart J., Bosly A., et al. Prognosis of haematological malignancies does not predict intensive care unit mortality. Critical Care Medicine 2002, 30(10):2260-2269.
24. Naeem N., Reed M., Creger R., Youngner S., Lazarus H Transfer of the hematopoietic stem cell transplant to the intensive care unit: does it really matter?. Bone Marrow Transplantation 2006, 37:119-132.
25. Morgan R., Williams F., Wright M. An early warning scoring system for detecting developing critical illness. Clinical Intensive Care 1997, 8(2):100.
26. Morgan R.J.M, Wright M.M. In defence of early warning scores. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007, 99:747-748.
27. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Acutely ill patients in hospital: Recognition of and response to acute illness in adults in hospital 2007, [accessed 13/07/2007]. Available online:. http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=421416.
28. NCEPOD An acute problem. A report by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome And Death 2005, [accessed May 2009]. Available online:. http://www.ncepod.org.uk/.
29. Smith G., Prytherch D., Schmidt P., Featherstone P., Kellett J., Deane B., et al. Should age be included as a component of track and trigger systems used to identify sick adult patients. Resuscitation 2008, 78(2):109-115.
30. Stenhouse C., Coates S., Tivey M., Allsop P., Parker T. Prospective evaluation of a modified early warning score to aid earlier detection of patients developing critical illness on a general surgical ward. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2000, 84(5):663.
31. Straus S., Richardson W., Rosenberg W., Haynes B., Sackett D. Evidence-based medicine: how to practice and teach EBM 2005, Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh. 3rd ed.
32. Subbe C., Kruger M., Rutherford P., Gemmell L. Validation of a modified Early Warning Score in medical admissions. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 2001, 94:521-526.
33. Subbe C., Williams E., Fligelstone L., Gemmell L. Does earlier detection of critically ill patients on surgical wards lead to better outcomes. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 2005, 87:226-232.