Manual centile-based early warning scores derived from statistical distributions of observational vital-sign data

Resuscitation

Volumn 129, Issue , 2018, Pages 55-60

  Watkinson, Peter J ^a   Pimentel, Marco A F ^b   Clifton, David A ^b   Tarassenko, Lionel ^b  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early warning system; Medical emergency team; Physiological monitoring; Risk scoring systems; Vital signs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL CENTILE BASED EARLY WARNING SCORE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VITAL SIGN; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 85048554758     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2018.06.003     Document Type: Article

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