Scoping review: the use of early warning systems for the identification of in-hospital patients at risk of deterioration

MD Le Lagadec, T Dwyer - Australian Critical Care, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction Early warning systems (EWS) were developed as a means of alerting medical
staff to patient clinical decline. Since 85% of severe adverse events are preceded by …

Evidence of data quality in trauma registries: a systematic review

TV Porgo, L Moore, PA Tardif - Journal of trauma and acute care …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Trauma registries are clinical databases designed for quality improvement
activities and research and have made important contributions to the improvements in …

Early warning scores: a sign of deterioration in patients and systems

A Fox, N Elliott - Nursing management, 2015 - journals.rcni.com
The early warning score system is a decision-making tool that has a simple design, yet its
implementation in healthcare organisations is proving complex. This article reports the …

An examination of calibration intervals required for accurately tracking blood pressure using pulse transit time algorithms

BM McCarthy, CJ Vaughan, B O'flynn… - Journal of human …, 2013 - nature.com
Pulse transit time (PTT) is defined as the time it takes the blood pressure (BP) wave to
propagate from the heart to a specified point on the body. After an initial BP measurement …

Datasets from fifteen years of automated requirements traceability research: Current state, characteristics, and quality

W Zogaan, P Sharma, M Mirahkorli… - 2017 IEEE 25th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software datasets play a crucial role in advancing automated software traceability research.
They can be used by researchers in different ways to develop or validate new automated …

Accuracy and efficiency of recording pediatric early warning scores using an electronic physiological surveillance system compared with traditional paper-based …

G Sefton, S Lane, R Killen, S Black… - CIN: Computers …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Pediatric Early Warning Scores are advocated to assist health professionals to
identify early signs of serious illness or deterioration in hospitalized children. Scores are …

Data quality assessment and improvement

R Silvola, J Harkonen, O Vilppola… - International …, 2016 - inderscienceonline.com
Data quality has significance to companies, but is an issue that can be challenging to
approach and operationalise. This study focuses on data quality from the perspective of …

Early warning systems

D Georgaka, M Mparmparousi, M Vitos - Hospital Chronicles, 2012 - hospitalchronicles.gr
Currently, medical general wards tend to have a higher number of severely sick patients with
a long period of critical illness. In addition, there is a growing recognition that several …

Design and development of a proactive rapid response system

M Heal, S Silvest-Guerrero, C Kohtz - CIN: Computers, Informatics …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Timely identification of patient deterioration can prompt intervention and prevent the
escalation of care and unplanned intensive care admissions. However, both personal …

Sakdas: a python package for data profiling and data quality auditing

S Loetpipatwanich… - 2020 1st International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data Profiling and data quality management become a more significant part of data
engineering, which an essential part of ensuring that the system delivers quality information …