title: Feasibility and Reliability of Pediatric Early Warning Score in the Emergency Department.
abstract: Pediatric early warning scores in an emergency department may be used in routine patient evaluation of illness severity and resource allocation, thereby positively impacting quality and safety in pediatric care. This prospective nursing study assessed the feasibility and reliability of pediatric early warning scores in a busy, inner-city, level 1 trauma center pediatric emergency department. The pediatric early warning scores demonstrated high interrater reliability (degree of agreement among scorers) (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.91) and intrarater reliability (multiple repetitions by a single scorer) (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.90).
authors: Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics (Dr Tilford) and Department of Pediatrics (Dr Niu) and Nursing (Dr Kobayashi and Mss Ryan, Johnson, Page, Martin, and Caldwell), Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit; Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan (Ms Duffy); and Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit (Dr Mahajan).
authors: Xun
authors: X
authors: Niu
authors: Bradley
authors: B
authors: Tilford
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Duffy
authors: Hitomi
authors: H
authors: Kobayashi
authors: Kelley
authors: K
authors: Ryan
authors: Mindi
authors: M
authors: Johnson
authors: Bethany
authors: B
authors: Page
authors: Claire
authors: C
authors: Martin
authors: Rhonda
authors: R
authors: Caldwell
authors: Prashant
authors: P
authors: Mahajan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D017144:Focus Groups; D006786:Hospitals, Urban; D006801:Humans; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000592:standards; D010372:Pediatrics; D011446:Prospective Studies; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D014218:Triage