Improving In-Hospital Patient Rescue: What Are Studies on Early Warning Scores Missing? A Scoping Review.

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Administrative and clinical efforts to improve hospital mortality and intensive care utilization commonly focus on patient rescue, where deteriorating patients are systematically identified and intervened upon. Patient rescue is known to depend on hospital context inclusive of technologic environment, structural features, and hospital organizational behavioral features. With widespread adoption of electronic medical records, early warning score (EWS) systems, which assign points to clinical data elements, are increasingly promoted as a tool for timely patient rescue by referencing their prediction of patient deterioration. We describe the extent to which EWS intervention studies describe the hospital environment of the intervention-details that would be critical for hosp

SUBMITTER: Esmaeilzadeh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8863168 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature