http://hdl.handle.net/10147/204631 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:04:49 GMT 2013-06-18T07:04:49Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/270354 Title: Assessing the need for hospital admission by the Cape Triage discriminator presentations and the simple clinical score. Authors: Emmanuel, Andrew; Ismail, Asyik; Kellett, John Abstract: There is uncertainty about how to assess unselected acutely ill medical patients at the time of their admission to hospital. This study examined the use of the Simple Clinical Score (SCS) and the medically relevant Cape Triage discriminator clinical presentations to determine the need for admission to an acute medical unit. Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/270354 2010-11-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/270353 Title: READS: the rapid electronic assessment documentation system. Authors: Hickey, Ann; Gleeson, Margaret; Kellett, John Abstract: Patient documentation is time consuming and can detract from care. The authors report a novel computer programme that manipulates routinely collected information to quantify nursing workload, along with the reason for admission, functional status, estimates of in-hospital mortality and life expectancy. The programme stores information in a database, and produces a print-out in a situation/background/assessment/recommendation (SBAR) format. The average time taken to enter 629 patient encounters was 6.6 minutes. Pain was the most common presentation for low workload patients, while high workload patients often presented with altered mental status and reduced mobility. There was only a modest correlation between the risk of death and nursing workload. The programme measures nursing workload without further paperwork, and improves routine documentation with a legible brief report that is automatically generated. This report can be shared and provides data that is immediately available for day-to-day care, audit, quality control and service planning. Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/270353 2012-12-13T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/268233 Title: Prediction of mortality 1 year after hospital admission. Authors: Kellett, J; Rasool, S; McLoughlin, B Abstract: Hospital admission, especially for the elderly, can be a seminal event as many patients die within a year. This study reports the prediction of death within a year of admission to hospital of the Simple Clinical Score (SCS) and ECG dispersion mapping (ECG-DM). ECG-DM is a novel technique that analyzes low-amplitude ECG oscillations and reports them as the myocardial micro-alternation index (MMI). Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/268233 2012-09-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/251127 Title: The Model 2 hospital: role and challenges Authors: Kellett, J; O’Keeffe, ST Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/251127 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z