Cross-sectional audit on the relevance of Elevated National Early Warning Score in medical patients at a Model 2 hospital in Ireland

Conclusions In medical patients admitted to a Model 2 hospital with chronic respiratory illness, the ‘respiratory variables’ of the NEWS score are poor discriminators of patients who are clinically deteriorating. Better tools (such as the CREWS score) are required to distinguish acutely ill from chronically ill patients with respiratory disease in Model 2 hospitals.

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11845-014-1216-y

Source: Irish Journal of Medical Science - October 20, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research