Assessment of clinical risk in the out of hours hospital prior to the introduction of Hospital at Night

Beckett, Daniel; Gordon, Claire; Paterson, Ruth; Chalkley, S.; Bell, Derek; Macleod, D.

Abstract

Overnight medical cover in hospital is less than during daylight hours. We aimed to quantify the numbers of patients deteriorating overnight and their clinical outcome. Data was collected in real time on use of the Standardised Early Warning Score (SEWS), 'time to doctor', seniority of medical review and clinical outcome. 136 incidents of clinical concern were noted on the general wards with a median response time of 5 minutes for SEWS>4 and 10 minutes if SEWS

Citation

Beckett, D., Gordon, C., Paterson, R., Chalkley, S., Bell, D., & Macleod, D. (2009). Assessment of clinical risk in the out of hours hospital prior to the introduction of Hospital at Night. Journal of Acute Medicine, 8(1), 33-40

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Apr 8, 2009
• Deposit Date: Dec 9, 2019
• Journal: Acute Medicine
• Print ISSN: 2211-5587
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33-40
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1721002
• Publisher URL: https://acutemedjournal.co.uk/journal/volume-8/volume-8-issue-1-pages-1-52-2009/assessment-of-clinical-risk-in-the-out-of-hours-hospital-prior-to-the-introduction-of-hospital-at-night/
• Related Public URLs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21607208