Sepsis Screening: Combining Early Warning Scores and SIRS Criteria, Clinical Nursing Research 30(1): 42-49

Providing effective screening tools to nurses is necessary to improve patient outcomes and health care quality. This research examines if the modification of two electronic health record sepsis screening tools using a combined systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), modified early warning score (MEWS), and national early warning score (NEWS) criteria improves the recognition of sepsis by nurses. Medical-surgical/telemetry units at a medical center in the Midwest were examined using a quasiexperimental design. Modifications of tool 1 captured 18% more correct classifications of sepsis (odds ratio [OR] =.82, 95% CI = [0.68, 0.98]), triggering for 10% fewer patients, t (1033) = 9.31, p
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