Mandatory early warning scoring-implementation evaluated with a mixed-methods approach

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 29, Issue , 2016, Pages 168-176

  Bunkenborg, Gitte ^a,b   Poulsen, Ingrid ^a   Samuelson, Karin ^c   Ladelund, Steen ^a   Åkeson, Jonas ^b  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adherence; Early Warning Score; Implementation process; Monitoring practice; Vital parameters

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONITORING; MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; NURSE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; LIVING WILL; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; VITAL SIGN;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84963492733     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnr.2015.06.012     Document Type: Article

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