CREWS: Improving specificity whilst maintaining sensitivity of the National Early Warning Score in patients with chronic hypoxaemia

Resuscitation

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 109-111

  Eccles, Sinan R ^a   Subbe, Chris ^b   Hancock, Daniel ^c   Thomson, Nicolette ^c  

^a WREXHAM MAELOR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b YSBYTY GWYNEDD   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

COPD; Death; Early Warning Score; Hypoxia; NEWS; Pulmonary fibrosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY EARLY WARNING SCORE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL EARLY WARNING SCORE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANOXIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOXIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891144183     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.08.277     Document Type: Article

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