A Trend-Based Early Warning Score Can Be Implemented in a Hospital Electronic Medical Record to Effectively Predict Inpatient Deterioration

Overview:

Determine whether a statistically derived, trend-based, deterioration index is superior to other early warning scores at predicting adverse events and whether it can be integrated into an electronic medical record to enable real-time alerts.

Authors:

David Bell, MS, MBBS1,2

John Baker, BCompSc1

Chris Williams, BSc1

Levi Bassin, BSc, MBBS, PhD1,2

Publication

Critical Care Medicine 49(10):e961-e967

Date Published:

1/10/2021

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