Scoping Review of Pediatric Early Warning Systems (PEWS) in Resource-Limited and Humanitarian Settings.

ABSTRACT: Pediatric Early Warning Systems (PEWS) aim to identify hospitalized children at increased risk of deterioration by assigning a score based on vital signs and clinical status and guiding interventions using a response algorithm to improve outcomes. When implemented with quality improvement methodology, these systems have been shown to be effective in high-resource settings and have the potential to improve the care of children in humanitarian and resource-limited settings (RLS). The purpose of this review is to summarize the current evidence for use of PEWS in RLS and identify areas for further research. A review of the current PEWS literature in RLS was performed using Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), EMBASE, Portal Regional

SUBMITTER: Brown SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6331420 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature