Validation of an abbreviated Vitalpac™ Early Warning Score (ViEWS) in 75,419 consecutive admissions to a Canadian Regional Hospital

Resuscitation

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 297-302

  Kellett, John ^a   Kim, Arnold ^b  

^a St Joseph's General Hospital Nenagh   (Ireland)

^b Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early warning scores; Monitoring; Outcome; Patient safety; Vital signs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STROKE PATIENT; SURGICAL PATIENT; VALIDATION STUDY; VITAL SIGN; VITALPAC EARLY WARNING SCORE;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ONTARIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84857046946     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.08.022     Document Type: Article

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