ABSTRACT The National Early Warning Score (NEWS) has been widely adopted for use in
clinical practice in the UK since its introduction in 2012. It is designed to improve patient …

Introduction Early Warning Scoring systems (EWS) identify critical illness at an early stage.
The Royal College of Physicians has proposed use of a 'National Early Warning …

A national early warning score (NEWS) system has been introduced in the UK to identify and
protect patients at risk of serious clinical deterioration. 1–3 The system allocates EWS points …

Background: The National Early Warning Score (NEWS), a vital-signs-based early warning
score (EWS), has been suggested to perform poorly in patients with hypercapnic respiratory …

Editor–The concept of a standardised national Early Warning Scoring System is very
welcome and we strongly support this initiative by the Royal College of Physicians (Clin Med …

system leads to a significant number of patients with AECOPD alerting when they have
nationally recommended target oxygen saturations. A simple adjustment of the alerting …

1 NEWS2 was not tested. The oximetry section in NEWS2 is designed to modify clinical
behaviour by facilitating guidelinebased management for hypercapnic patients. 2, 3 NEWS2 …

Introduction The National Early Warning Score-2 (NEWS-2) is used to detect deteriorating
patients in hospital settings. We aimed to understand how NEWS-2 functions in the real-life …

Background Titrated oxygen has been shown to significantly reduce mortality in patients
presenting with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) 1. All …

The study by Pimental et al. 1 is important as it is the first to comparethe ability of the
National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2, 3 with the National Early Warning Score 2 …