Performance of early warning scoring systems to detect patient deterioration in the emergency department

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8315, Issue , 2014, Pages 159-169

  Santos, Mauro D ^a   Clifton, David A ^a   Tarassenko, Lionel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early warning scoring system; Emergency department; Receiver operator characteristic analysis

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY ROOMS; PATIENT MONITORING;

EARLY WARNING; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITAL WARDS; NURSING STAFF; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTICS; SCORING SYSTEMS; VITAL SIGN;

DETERIORATION;

EID: 84927637675     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-53956-5_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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