Clinician Perceptions of an Early Warning System on Patient Safety

Modified Early Warning System improves patient safety and clinical outcomes in an academic community hospital

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Severe adverse events such as cardiac arrest and death are often heralded by abnormal vital signs hours before the event. This necessitates an organized track and trigger approach of early recognition and response to subtle changes in a patient's condition. The Modified Early Warning System (MEWS) is one of such systems that use temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respi...

An early warning on early warning systems!

Early-Warning System Perception: a Study on Fire Safety

Warnings can help prevent damage and harm if they are issued timely and provide information helping responders and population to adequately prepare for the disaster to come. Today, there are many indicator and sensor systems that are designed to reduce disaster risks, or issue early warnings. In this paper we analyze the perception that people have from security management systems and we propos...

Experiment on an Onsite Early Warning Method for the Taiwan Early Warning System

Evaluating the Application of a Financial Early Warning System in the Iranian Banking System

One of the significant problems of banks and investors in Iran is the lack of precise awareness about the financial performance of each bank and the roadmap for improving the conditions. Besides, the undesirable status of the financial performance of banks becomes evident only when the improvement of conditions is complicated. In this paper, a data mining-based early warning system (EWS) model ...