Serious adverse events in a hospital using early warning score - What went wrong?

Resuscitation

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1699-1703

  Petersen, John Asger ^a   Mackel, Rebecca ^a   Antonsen, Kristian ^a   Rasmussen, Lars S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Early warning score; In hospital cardiac arrest; Medical emergency team; Rapid response system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; EARLY WARNING SCORE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; SUDDEN DEATH; DENMARK; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENMARK; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84919458894     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.08.037     Document Type: Article

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