Performance of 21 Early Warning System scores in predicting in-hospital deterioration among undifferentiated admitted patients managed by ambulance services (2024)

1. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1575-6794Gigi Guan1,2,
2. Crystal Man Ying Lee3,
3. Stephen Begg4,
4. Angela Crombie5,
5. George Mnatzaganian1

1. ¹Rural Department of Community Health, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
2. ²Department of Rural Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
3. ³School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
4. ⁴Violet Vines Marshman Centre for Rural Health Research, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
5. ⁵Research & Innovation, Bendigo Health, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

1. Correspondence to Mr Gigi Guan, Rural Department of Community Health, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia; gigiaus{at}gmail.com

• emergency department
• acute care
• assessment
• diagnosis
• pre-hospital care

• emergency department
• acute care
• assessment
• diagnosis
• pre-hospital care

Footnotes

• Handling editor Kirsty Challen

• Contributors GG—conceptualisation, data curation, formal analysis, methodology, validation, writing (original draft) and writing (review and editing), research guarantor. CMYL—conceptualisation, validation and writing (review and editing). SB—writing (review and editing). AC—data curation and writing (review and editing). GM—conceptualisation, data curation, formal analysis, methodology, validation, writing (original draft) and writing (review and editing).

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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