Background and Objectives Patient assessment and possible deterioration prediction are a
healthcare priority. Increasing demand for outpatient emergency care services requires the …

Background Patients with major trauma might benefit from treatment in a trauma centre, but
early identification of major trauma (Injury Severity Score (ISS) over 15) remains difficult. The …

Background A myriad of early warning scores (EWSs) exist, yet there is a need to identify the
most clinically valid score to be used in prehospital respiratory assessments to estimate …

Background Febrile neutropenia (FN) has been associated with high mortality among adults
with cancer. Current systems for early detection of inpatient FN mortality are based on …

Background: Emergency department (ED) physicians often need to quickly assess patients
and determine vital signs to prioritize them by the severity of their condition and make …

Objectives Early warning scores are clinical tools capable of identifying prehospital patients
with high risk of deterioration. We sought here to contrast the validity of seven early warning …

Early warning scores (EWSs) help prevent and recognize and thereby act as the first signs of
clinical and physiological deterioration. The objective of this study is to evaluate different …

Trauma scoring systems were created to predict mortality and enhance triage capabilities.
However, efficacy of scoring systems to predict mortality and accuracy of originally reported …

Objective The purpose of this research was to evaluate the predictive capacity of five Early
Warning Scores in relation to the clinical evolution of adult patients with different types of …

Objectives To test the association between the initial red blood cell distribution width (RDW)
value in the emergency department (ED) and hospital admission and, among those …