Well-implemented Early Warning Scores can help Rapid Response Teams in improving outcomes
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The intersection of deteriorating patients, Early Warning Scores, Rapid Response Teams and new monitoring technology These days, hospitals are treating increasingly complex patients with multiple co-morbidities. At any given time some of these patients may be rapidly deteriorating, for a variety of reasons. Every hospital must have a strategy to identify such patients, and be capable of providing the appropriate level of care at the right time. Early intervention on a patient who is deteriorating is likely to improve that patient’s outcome.1,2
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Characteristics and outcomes of pediatric rapid response teams before and after mandatory triggering by an elevated Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) score.
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