title: Value of early warning scores in emergency departments.
abstract: Developed in the belief that early identification and intervention of deteriorating patients would reduce the number of deaths, early warning scores (EWS) have become a routine feature of work in UK emergency departments (EDs) and are becoming increasingly common in paediatric emergency care. They are popular with managers, commissioners and clinicians, yet the authors of this report state that there is little evidence of this reduction in the literature.
mesh_terms: D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom