Evaluation and improvement of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) for COVID-19: a multi-hospital study

Abstract Background The National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) is currently recommended in the UK for the risk stratification of COVID-19 patients, but little is known about its ability to detect severe cases. We aimed to evaluate NEWS2 for the prediction of severe COVID-19 outcome and identify and va...

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Main Authors: Ewan Carr, Rebecca Bendayan, Daniel Bean, Matt Stammers, Wenjuan Wang, Huayu Zhang, Thomas Searle, Zeljko Kraljevic, Anthony Shek, Hang T. T. Phan, Walter Muruet, Rishi K. Gupta, Anthony J. Shinton, Mike Wyatt, Ting Shi, Xin Zhang, Andrew Pickles, Daniel Stahl, Rosita Zakeri, Mahdad Noursadeghi, Kevin O’Gallagher, Matt Rogers, Amos Folarin, Andreas Karwath, Kristin E. Wickstrøm, Alvaro Köhn-Luque, Luke Slater, Victor Roth Cardoso, Christopher Bourdeaux, Aleksander Rygh Holten, Simon Ball, Chris McWilliams, Lukasz Roguski, Florina Borca, James Batchelor, Erik Koldberg Amundsen, Xiaodong Wu, Georgios V. Gkoutos, Jiaxing Sun, Ashwin Pinto, Bruce Guthrie, Cormac Breen, Abdel Douiri, Honghan Wu, Vasa Curcin, James T. Teo, Ajay M. Shah, Richard J. B. Dobson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:BMC Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01893-3