title: Early warning scores: are they needed in emergency care?
abstract: This article reviews an audit to assess how adequately emergency department (ED) staff can use with little training a modified Patient At Risk (mPAR) early warning score, and then identifies whether mPAR scores can be used in an ED to improve outcomes for 'GP lodgers' by alerting specialty doctors of their clinical priority earlier.
authors.affiliation: North Wales NHS Trust.
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Windle
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D016529:Emergency Nursing; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014218:Triage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*