Performance of seven different paediatric early warning scores to predict critical care admission in febrile children presenting to the emergency department: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Paediatric Early Warning Scores (PEWS) are widely used in the UK, but the heterogeneity across tools and the limited data on their predictive performance represent obstacles to improving best practice. The standardisation of practice through the proposed National PEWS will rely on robust validation. Therefore, we compared the performance of the National PEWS with six other PEWS currently used in NHS hospitals, for their ability to predict critical care (CC) admission in febrile children attending the emergency department (ED).

Design

Retrospective single-centre cohort study.

Setting

Tertiary hospital paediatric ED.

Participants

A total of 11 449 eligible febrile ED attendances were identified from the electronic patient record over a 2-year period. Se

SUBMITTER: Romaine ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8098996 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature