Observational cohort study with internal and external validation of a predictive tool for identification of children in need of hospital admission from the emergency department: the Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency Department (PAGE) score.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To devise an assessment tool to aid discharge and admission decision-making in relation to children and young people in hospital urgent and emergency care facilities, and thereby improve the quality of care that patients receive, using a clinical prediction modelling approach.

Design

Observational cohort study with internal and external validation of a predictive tool.

Setting

Two general emergency departments (EDs) and an urgent care centre in the North of England.

Participants

The eligibility criteria were children and young people 0-16 years of age who attended one of the three hospital sites within one National Health Service (NHS) organisation. Children were excluded if they opted out of the study, were brought to the ED following their death in

SUBMITTER: Rowland A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7780516 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature