National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2
Determines the degree of illness of a patient and prompts critical care intervention (recommended by NHS over original NEWS).
Tips for COVID-19: Use for Crisis Standards of Care. Used for subgroup analyses (not for Crises Standards of Care) in Cao et al (2020) NEJM’s Lopinavir-Ritonavir study in COVID-19.
Recommended by the NHS (UK) over the original NEWS.
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Gary B. Smith, Cert Med, FRCA, FRCP, is a visiting professor at the School of Health & Social Care, University of Bournemouth, UK. He is director of the UK Deteriorating Hospital Patient conference and co-director of the International Conferences on Rapid Response Systems. Professor Smith co-developed RSVP (Reason-Story-Vital Signs-Plan), for communicating patient deterioration and the Chain of Prevention, a paradigm for preventing patient deterioration.