title: Nurse concern: a predictor of patient deterioration.
abstract: Nurses who have cared for a patient for some time often develop an intuitive sense of when that patient's condition is deteriorating. This article discusses how this intuition can be quantified and presented to medical staff so that patients receive timely and appropriate intervention.
authors.affiliation: Accident and Emergency Department, Frimley Park Hospital, Camberley, Surrey.
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kenward
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hodgetts
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease / Q000451:nursing*; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D019545:Intuition; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests