title: Modified early warning score: evaluation of trauma patients.
abstract: to identify the severity of patients admitted to an emergency trauma.
  A cross-sectional and retrospective study with 115 trauma patients classified as orange (Manchester System), from June 2013 to July 2014. The data were presented as mean and standard deviation, in addition to the Pearson Chi-square test, One-Way ANOVA and Tukey tests.
  from the sample, 81.7% were male with mean age of 39.46±19.71 years. Higher incidence of major trauma (48.7%) and traumatic brain injury (37.4%). At the end of the outcome and MEWS, most cases that had score 1 to 3 were referred to the operating room and the ICU.
  the start point of MEWS was 2 to 3 points, with significant increase in the severity of the situation of patients seen after 6 hours, and approximately half of the individuals underwent surgery, indicating that the scale is a good predictor of severity.
authors: Grupo Hospitalar Conceição, Residência Integrada em Saúde. Porto Alegre-RS, Brasil.
authors: Thaís Flôr da
authors: TF
authors: Rocha
authors: Grupo Hospitalar Conceição, Residência Integrada em Saúde. Porto Alegre-RS, Brasil.
authors: Juliana Gibbon
authors: JG
authors: Neves
authors: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Centro de Ciências da Saúde. Porto Alegre-RS, Brasil.|Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre. Departamento de Enfermagem. Porto Alegre-RS, Brasil.
authors: Karin
authors: K
authors: Viegas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult