Evaluation of the feasibility and performance of early warning scores to identify patients at risk of adverse outcomes in a low-middle income country setting.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study describes the availability of core parameters for Early Warning Scores (EWS), evaluates the ability of selected EWS to identify patients at risk of death or other adverse outcome and describes the burden of triggering that front-line staff would experience if implemented.

Design

Longitudinal observational cohort study.

Setting

District General Hospital Monaragala.

Participants

All adult (age >17 years) admitted patients.

Main outcome measures

Existing physiological parameters, adverse outcomes and survival status at hospital discharge were extracted daily from existing paper records for all patients over an 8-month period.

Statistical analysis

Discrimination for selected aggregate weighted track and trigger systems (AWTTS) was

SUBMITTER: Beane A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5922475 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature