Minimal Impact of Implemented Early Warning Score and Best Practice Alert for Patient Deterioration.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Previous studies have looked at National Early Warning Score performance in predicting in-hospital deterioration and death, but data are lacking with respect to patient outcomes following implementation of National Early Warning Score. We sought to determine the effectiveness of National Early Warning Score implementation on predicting and preventing patient deterioration in a clinical setting.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Tertiary care academic facility and a community hospital.

Patients

Patients 18 years old or older hospitalized from March 1, 2014, to February 28, 2015, during preimplementation of National Early Warning Score to August 1, 2015, to July 31, 2016, after National Early Warning Score was implemented.

Interventions

SUBMITTER: Bedoya AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6298839 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature