The National Early Warning Score: Translation, testing and prediction in a Swedish setting

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue , 2016, Pages 62-67

  Spångfors, Martin ^a,c   Arvidsson, Lisa ^b,c   Karlsson, Victoria ^b,c   Samuelson, Karin ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Critical care outreach; ICU admission; In hospital patient safety; Medical emergency team; National Early Warning Score; Rapid response team

Indexed keywords

CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREDICTION; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; AGED; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREE; DEVICES; FEMALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

AGED; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84977124787     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2016.05.007     Document Type: Article

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