A national early warning score for acutely ill patients

McGinley, Ann; Pearse, Rupert M

doi:10.1136/bmj.e5310

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“…1 EWS are central to the concept of 'critical care without walls', delivered by nurse-led critical care outreach teams or physician-led medical response teams. 2 There are many types of EWS and a variety are used in the United Kingdom. 1 Some scoring systems are associated with patient outcome.…”

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A single-centre observational cohort study of admission National Early Warning Score (NEWS)

Abbott¹,

Vaid²,

Ip³

et al. 2015

Resuscitation

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NEWS on admission is superior to PARS for identifying patients at risk of death or critical care admission within the first 2 days of hospital stay. Current guidelines advocate a threshold of 5 for triggering a clinical review. However, since a score of 3 or more was associated with a poor outcome, this recommendation should be reviewed. Both scores were poor predictors of hospital length of stay.

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A single-centre observational cohort study of admission National Early Warning Score (NEWS)

Abbott¹,

Vaid²,

Ip³

et al. 2015

Resuscitation

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“…A recent British Medical Journal editorial was subtitled 'A new standard should help identify patients in need of critical care'. 4 In many ways this misses the point of NEWS, simply because of the phrase 'critical care'. Implicit in this phrase are the separate departments and teams within the hospital that offer augmented levels of care.…”

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NEWSDIG: The National Early Warning Score Development and Implementation Group

Jones

2012

Clinical Medicine

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“…It was shown that qSOFA score has poor sensitivity and is a late indicator of clinical deterioration. The same study found that National Early Warning Score (NEWS-recommended by NICE guidelines, UK Sepsis Trust, Royal College of Emergency Medicine) which uses data that is equally accessible at the bed side as a having better sensitivity and specificity 17,18 .…”

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confidence: 94%