Optimising paediatric afferent component early warning systems: a hermeneutic systematic literature review and model development.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify the core components of successful early warning systems for detecting and initiating action in response to clinical deterioration in paediatric inpatients.

Methods

A hermeneutic systematic literature review informed by translational mobilisation theory and normalisation process theory was used to synthesise 82 studies of paediatric and adult early warning systems and interventions to support the detection of clinical deterioration and escalation of care. This method, which is designed to develop understanding, enabled the development of a propositional model of an optimal afferent component early warning system.

Results

Detecting deterioration and initiating action in response to clinical deterioration in paediatric inpatients involves several ch

SUBMITTER: Jacob N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6886951 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature