Predicting transfers to intensive care in children using CEWT and other early warning systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

The Children's Early Warning Tool (CEWT), developed in Australia, is widely used in many countries to monitor the risk of deterioration in hospitalized children. Our objective was to compare CEWT prediction performance against a version of the Bedside Pediatric Early Warning Score (Bedside PEWS), Between the Flags (BTF), and the pediatric Calculated Assessment of Risk and Triage (pCART).

Methods

We conducted a retrospective observational study of all patient admissions to the Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago between 2009-2019. We compared performance for predicting the primary outcome of a direct ward-to-intensive care unit (ICU) transfer within the next 12 h using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC)

SUBMITTER: McCaffery K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10801303 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature