The value of modified early warning score in predicting early mortality of critically ill patients admitted to emergency department

Chinese Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 687-690

  Gu, Ming ^a   Fu, Yangyang ^b   Li, Chen ^b   Chen, Mingyu ^b   Zhang, Xiaocui ^b   Xu, Jun ^b   Yu, Xuezhong ^b  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Critically ill patient in emergenc departemnt; Modified early warning score; Mortality; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH; MODIFIED EARLY WARNING SCORE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; INTENSIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT; AGED; CHINA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; BEIJING; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84954108077     PISSN: 10030603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-4352.2015.08.014     Document Type: Article

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