Changes and their prognostic implications in the abbreviated Vitalpac™ early warning score (ViEWS) after admission to hospital of 18,853 acutely ill medical patients

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-20

  Kellett, John ^a   Woodworth, Simon ^b   Wang, Fei ^c   Huang, Wendy ^c  

^a Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute medical units; Early warning scores

Indexed keywords

ACUTELY ILL MEDICAL PATIENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; VITALPAC EARLY WARNING SCORE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84871396002     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.08.331     Document Type: Article

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