Abstract:RATIONALE The National Early Warning Score (NEWS) is an early warning scoring that has been modified and scaled to detect early clinical deterioration in different clinical settings outside the intensive care unit (ICU). Previous epidemiological studies of NEWS were in non-Veterans Affairs (VA) populations. Little data exist on NEWS deployment in a VA-setting. Our study aims to evaluate how the NEWS performed in a VA 1b facility emergency department (ED). These results are important to evaluate if the NEWS sco… Show more
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