National Early Warning Scores and COVID-19 deaths in care homes: an ecological time-series study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate whether National Early Warning Scores (NEWS/NEWS2) could contribute to COVID-19 surveillance in care homes.

Setting

460 care home units using the same software package to collect data on residents, from 46 local authority areas in England.

Participants

6464 care home residents with at least one NEWS recording.

Exposure measure

29 656 anonymised person-level NEWS from 29 December 2019 to 20 May 2020 with component physiological measures: systolic blood pressure, respiratory rate, pulse rate, temperature and oxygen saturation. Baseline values for each measure calculated using 80th and 20th centile scores before March 2020.

Outcome measure

Cross-correlation comparison of time series with Office for National Statistics weekly report

SUBMITTER: Stow D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8438578 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature