Clinical Impact Automated Early Warning Scores

Bellomo et al. reported on a study, involving close to 20,000 patients and 10 hospitals on three different continents, and found that the use of an automated clinical decision support system, when compared with hospitals’ previous practices for measuring vital signs and calculating EWS to activate a rapid response team (RRT), is associated with increased survival immediately after RRT treatment; shorter median hospital length of stay in patients in the U.S. hospitals included in the study; and shorter time to complete and record a set of vital signs.([FOOTNOTE=Bellomo, R., Ackerman, M., Bailey, M., et al. A controlled trial of electronic automated advisory vital signs monitoring in general hospital wards. Crit Care Med. 2012;40(8):2349-2361.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])