The impact of wearable continuous vital sign monitoring on deterioration detection and clinical outcomes in hospitalised patients: a systematic review and meta …

C Areia, C Biggs, M Santos, N Thurley, S Gerry… - Critical Care, 2021‏ - Springer
Background Timely recognition of the deteriorating inpatient remains challenging. Wearable
monitoring systems (WMS) may augment current monitoring practices. However, there are …

Risk stratification of hospitalized patients on the wards

MM Churpek, TC Yuen, DP Edelson - Chest, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Patients who suffer adverse events on the wards, such as cardiac arrest and death, often
have vital sign abnormalities hours before the event. Early warning scores have been …

ICU admission, discharge, and triage guidelines: a framework to enhance clinical operations, development of institutional policies, and further research

JL Nates, M Nunnally, R Kleinpell, S Blosser… - Critical care …, 2016‏ - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To update the Society of Critical Care Medicine's guidelines for ICU admission,
discharge, and triage, providing a framework for clinical practice, the development of …

Experiences of current vital signs monitoring practices and views of wearable monitoring: a qualitative study in patients and nurses

C Areia, E King, J Ede, L Young… - Journal of advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aims To understand current experiences of vital signs monitoring of patients and clinical staff
on a surgical ward, and views on the introduction of wearable ambulatory monitoring into the …

Relationship between nursing documentation and patients' mortality

SA Collins, K Cato, D Albers, K Scott, PD Stetson… - American Journal of …, 2013‏ - AACN
Background Nurses alter their monitoring behavior as a patient's clinical condition
deteriorates, often detecting and documenting subtle changes before physiological trends …

Is the Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) superior to clinician judgement in detecting critical illness in the pre-hospital environment?

JN Fullerton, CL Price, NE Silvey, SJ Brace… - Resuscitation, 2012‏ - Elsevier
AIM: Physiological track and trigger scores have an established role in enhancing the
detection of critical illness in hospitalized patients. Their potential to identify individuals at …

Early warning systems and rapid response to the deteriorating patient in hospital: a systematic realist review

J McGaughey, P O'Halloran, S Porter… - Journal of advanced …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim To determine the Rapid Response System programme theory and investigate
how the mechanisms of implementation and the characteristics of context combine to enable …

[HTML][HTML] Scoring systems for the characterization of sepsis and associated outcomes

N McLymont, GW Glover - Annals of translational medicine, 2016‏ - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sepsis is responsible for the utilisation of a significant proportion of healthcare resources
and has high mortality rates. Early diagnosis and prompt interventions are associated with …

Factors affecting response to national early warning score (NEWS)

I Kolic, S Crane, S McCartney, Z Perkins, A Taylor - Resuscitation, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Introduction The NEWS is a physiological score, which prescribes an appropriate response
for the deteriorating patient in need of urgent medical care. However, it has been suggested …

A review of early warning systems for prompt detection of patients at risk for clinical decline

AA Kramer, F Sebat, M Lissauer - Journal of Trauma and Acute …, 2019‏ - journals.lww.com
Abstract Early Warning Scores (EWS) are a composite evaluation of a patient's basic
physiology, changes of which are the first indicators of clinical decline and are used to …