Hospitals urged to use same early warning score system
RCN says encouraging the use of National Early Warning Score system should make life easier for nurses
Almost 2,000 lives could be saved each year if all hospitals adopted the same system for spotting which patients are becoming seriously ill, officials say.
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doi: 10.7748/nm.24.9.6.s2
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