Introduction of an electronic physiological early warning system: Effects on mortality and length of stay

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 603-609

  Dawes, T R ^a   Cheek, E ^b   Bewick, V ^b   Dennis, M ^a   Duckitt, R W ^a   Walker, J ^a   Forni, L G ^a   Venn, R ^a  

^a WORTHING HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospital mortality; Length of stay; Medicine; Monitoring, physiological; Patient admission

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; OXYGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC ALERTING SOFTWARE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT MONITOR; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFTWARE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED KINGDOM; WARD; WORTHING PHYSIOLOGICAL SCORING SYSTEM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT; MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; OXYGEN THERAPY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

HOSPITAL MORTALITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICINE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PATIENT ADMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMORBIDITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908617200     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeu107     Document Type: Article

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