Nurse concern: a predictor of patient deterioration.
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.
Kenward
Gary
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Accident and Emergency Department, Frimley Park Hospital, Camberley, Surrey.
Hodgetts
Timothy
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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