Early warning score adjusted for age to predict the composite outcome of mortality, cardiac arrest or unplanned intensive care unit admission using observational vital-sign data: a multicentre development and validation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early warning scores (EWS) alerting for in-hospital deterioration are commonly developed using routinely collected vital-sign data from the whole in-hospital population. As these in-hospital populations are dominated by those over the age of 45 years, resultant scores may perform less well in younger age groups. We developed and validated an age-specific early warning score (ASEWS) derived from statistical distributions of vital signs.

Design

Observational cohort study.

Setting

Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) July 2013 to March 2018 and Portsmouth Hospitals (PH) NHS Trust January 2010 to March 2017 within the Hospital Alerting Via Electronic Noticeboard database.

Participants

Hospitalised patients with electronically documented vital-sign observati

SUBMITTER: Shamout F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887005 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature