National Early Warning Score (NEWS)
Determines the degree of illness of a patient and prompts critical care intervention.
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The NEWS2 Score is endorsed by the NHS (UK) as an updated version of the original NEWS.
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Dr. Gary B. Smith
About the creator
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.
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