A comparison of the ability of the National Early Warning Score and the National Early Warning Score 2 to identify patients at risk of in-hospital mortality: A multi-centre database study

Resuscitation

Volumn 134, Issue , 2019, Pages 147-156

  Pimentel, Marco A F ^a   Redfern, Oliver C ^b   Gerry, Stephen ^c   Collins, Gary S ^c   Malycha, James ^c   Prytherch, David ^b   Schmidt, Paul E ^d   Smith, Gary B ^e   Watkinson, Peter J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

COPD; Early warning score; Physiological monitoring; Vital signs

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; MORTALITY RISK; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NATIONAL EARLY WARNING SCORE; NATIONAL EARLY WARNING SCORE 2; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VITAL SIGN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY WARNING SCORE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85054595082     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2018.09.026     Document Type: Article

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