A Comparison of the Ability of the Physiologic Components of Medical Emergency Team Criteria and the U.K. National Early Warning Score to Discriminate Patients at Risk of a Range of Adverse Clinical Outcomes∗

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2171-2181

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

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hospital rapid response team; medical emergency team; monitoring, physiologic; quality improvement; vital signs

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALERT VERBAL PAINFUL UNRESPONSIVE SCALE; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ASSESSMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL EARLY WARNING SCORE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEUROMONITORING; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAL SIGN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84995693645     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002000     Document Type: Article

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