Sure: many UK hospitals mandate a screen based on a triggering MEWS score. In our organization, a MEWS trigger was 50% specific and 80% sensitive for sepsis. Adding an electronic WCC flag got the sensitivity as compared with both +ve blood cultures and missed patients admitted to ITU up to 99%
Kind regards Ron Dr Ron Daniels Chair: UK Sepsis Trust CEO: Global Sepsis Alliance Sent on the move from my iPhone, excuse brevity! On 26 Feb 2013, at 21:29, Katherine Green <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is anyone using a Modified Early Warning Scoring System to target your sepsis > patients? If so, do you have any policies you would like to share? > > Due to our patient populations, we added an oxygen saturation and modality > component to our scoring system. The issue we are having is that our > Multiskilled Technicians do the majority of the vital signs, but cannot > perform pulse oximetry. What is the practice at other facilities that > implemented a MEWS System? > > Thanks, > > Katherine F. Green, RN, BSN, CCRN > ICU Coordinator > 4500 Thirteenth Street > Gulfport, MS 39565 > (228) 575-2517 > (228) 865-3521 > This email may contain information covered under the Mississippi Privacy Law > (Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29), the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. § 552a) > and/or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (Pub. > L. No. 104-191) and its accompanying regulations. Healthcare information is > personal and sensitive and must be protected in accordance with these > provisions. If this email contains healthcare information, it is being > disclosed to you only after appropriate authorization from the patient or > under circumstances that do not require patient authorization. You, the > recipient, are obligated to maintain it in a safe, secure and confidential > manner. Re-disclosure without additional patient authorization, unless > otherwise permitted by law, is prohibited. > > **********PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL********** > > If you are not the intended recipient of this email, be advised that any use, > disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the > contents of the information contained therein is strictly prohibited. If you > have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately by > reply email and then destroy/delete all copies of the original message and > any attachment(s) thereto. > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
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