Early warning scoring systems: Observation of care in practice

British Journal of Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1180-1184

  Morris, Andrew ^a   Davies, Kevin ^b  

^a CARDIFF AND VALE UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change management; Early warning scores; Patient observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958483314     PISSN: 09660461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2010.19.18.79052     Document Type: Article

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