Validation of an abbreviated Vitalpac™ Early Warning Score (ViEWS) in 75,419 consecutive admissions to a Canadian regional hospital.

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Kellett, John
Kim, Arnold
Affiliation
Department of Medicine, Nenagh Hospital, Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. jgkellett@eircom.net
Issue Date
2012-03
MeSH
Area Under Curve
Chi-Square Distribution
Female
Health Status Indicators
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Male
Ontario
Patient Admission
Predictive Value of Tests
ROC Curve
Risk Assessment
Severity of Illness Index
Vital Signs

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Validation of an abbreviated Vitalpac™ Early Warning Score (ViEWS) in 75,419 consecutive admissions to a Canadian regional hospital. 2012, 83 (3):297-302 Resuscitation
Journal
Resuscitation
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/232944
DOI
10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.08.022
PubMed ID
21907689
Abstract
The early warning score derived from 198,755 vital sign sets in the Vitalpac™ database (ViEWS) has an area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUROC) for death of acute unselected medical patients within 24h of 88%.
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Article
Language
en
ISSN
1873-1570
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