The national early warning score (NEWS) was derived among medical emergency department (ED) patients in the United Kingdom to provide a standardized method for the detection of critically ill patients [5,6]. In December 2017, NEWS received formal endorsement from NHS England to become the early...
Early warning score Vital signs COPD Introduction Vital signs based aggregate early warning score (EWS) systems, which assign weights to each vital sign according to the deviation from assumed normal values, are recommended for routine use in UK hospitals1, 2. In 2012, the Royal College of Phys...