Can binary early warning scores perform as well as standard early warning scores for discriminating a patient's risk of cardiac arrest, death or unanticipated intensive care unit admission?

Resuscitation

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 46-52

  Jarvis, Stuart ^a,b   Kovacs, Caroline ^a   Briggs, Jim ^a   Meredith, Paul ^c   Schmidt, Paul E ^c   Featherstone, Peter I ^c   Prytherch, David R ^a,c   Smith, Gary B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failure to rescue; Hospital rapid response team; Monitoring; Physiologic; Vital signs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EARLY WARNING SCORE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EARLY INTERVENTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTHCARE FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROPENSITY SCORE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAL SIGN;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROPENSITY SCORE; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84937501537     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.05.025     Document Type: Article

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