Effect of implementing the NEWS2 escalation protocol in a large acute NHS trust: a retrospective cohort analysis of mortality, workload and ability of early warning score to predict death within 24 hours.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the inpatient population, establish patterns in admission and mortality over a 4-year period in different cohorts and assess the prognostic ability and workload implications of introducing the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) and associated escalation protocol.

Design

Retrospective cohort analyses of medical and surgical inpatient admissions.

Setting

Large teaching hospital with tertiary inpatient care and a major trauma centre employing an electronic observations platform, initially with a local early warning score, followed by NEWS2 introduction in June 2019.

Participants

332 682 adult patients were admitted between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2019.

Outcome measures

Mortality, workload and ability of early warning score

SUBMITTER: Forster S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9693871 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature