Your quick guide to patient risk assessment tools
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Your quick guide to patient risk assessment tools

Erin Dean Health journalist
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We decode the many acronyms used for risk assessment tools so you will know your ABCDE from your NEWS2

Do NEWS2 you know and your your ABCDE GCS? As from a nursing your student, it won’t be long before you come across the many abbreviations and acronyms used in clinical practice, including those used for the standardised tools that are part of many routine and essential clinical assessments.

Mental Health Practice. 28, 2, 11-13. doi: 10.7748/mhp.28.2.11.s4

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06 March 2025 / Vol 28 issue 2

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