A role for the early warning score in early identification of critical postoperative complications

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 263, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 918-923

  Hollis, Robert H ^a   Graham, Laura A ^a   Lazenby, John P ^b   Brown, Daran M ^a   Taylor, Benjamin B ^a   Heslin, Martin J ^a   Rue, Loring W ^a   Hawn, Mary T ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Clavien Dindo classification; Early warning score; Early warning system; General surgery; Patient safety; Quality improvement; Surgical outcomes; Vital signs

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLAVIEN DINDO CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY WARNING SCORE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART ARREST; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WARD; VITAL SIGN; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CRITICAL CARE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; UNITED STATES; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84951304540     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001514     Document Type: Article

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