Early warning score

Early warning score (EWS) is a system that evaluates a patient's vital signs to detect any signs of deteriorating health. It is used as a reference for scoring the patients' vital sign values and is an approach to discover the declining health of a patient.From: Interoperability in IoT for Smart Systems [2020], The Pi-CON Methodology Applied: Operator Errors and Preference Tracking of a Novel Ubiquitous Vital Signs Sensor and Its User Interface [2023]

Use of Patient Care Device Data for Clinical Surveillance

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Published in John R. Zaleski, Clinical Surveillance, 2020

John R. Zaleski

An example wherein the combination of data from multiple sources results in an integrated assessment of the patient is in the use of early warning scores (EWS) that combine vital signs measurements with observations. Table 2.3 summarizes an example of one early warning score that combines measurements of heart rate, respiration, urine output, and patient conscious awareness.

The Pi-CON Methodology Applied: Operator Errors and Preference Tracking of a Novel Ubiquitous Vital Signs Sensor and Its User Interface

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Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023

Steffen Baumann, Richard T. Stone, Ulrike Genschel, Fatima Mgaedeh

By clicking on “learn more” (next to the risk classification), the user can review the reference chart used to classify the average vital sign value (Figure 5). The Early Warning Score (EWS) is used as a reference for scoring the patients’ vital sign values. EWS is a reference database utilized to standardize patients’ vital sign results to identify if a response to treatment is taking place (Petersen, 2018).

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