Tracking the National Early Warning Score 2 from prehospital care to the emergency department: A prospective, ambulance-based, observational study

Martín-Rodríguez, Francisco and Sanz-García, Ancor and Ortega, Guillermo J. and Delgado Benito, Juan F. and Aparicio Obregón, Silvia and Martínez Fernández, Francisco T. and González Crespo, Pilar and Otero de la Torre, Santiago and Castro Villamor, Miguel A. and López-Izquierdo, Raúl UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, silvia.aparicio@uneatlantico.es, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED (2023) Tracking the National Early Warning Score 2 from prehospital care to the emergency department: A prospective, ambulance-based, observational study. Prehospital Emergency Care. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1090-3127 (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Aim of the study: To assess the prognostic ability of the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) at three time points of care -at the emergency scene (NEWS2-1), just before starting the transfer by ambulance to the hospital (NEWS2- 2), and at the hospital triage box (NEWS2-3)- to estimate in-hospital mortality after two days since the index event. Methods: Prospective, multicenter, ambulance-based, cohort ongoing study in adults (>18 years) consecutively attended by advanced life support (ALS) and evacuated with high-priority to the emergency departments (ED) between October 2018 and May 2021. Vital sign measures were used to calculate the NEWS2 score at each time point, then this score was entered in a logistic regression model as the single predictor. Two outcomes were considered: first, all-cause mortality of the patients within 2 days of presentation to EMS, and second, unplanned ICU admission. The calibration and scores comparison was performed by representing the predicted vs the observed risk curves according to NEWS score value. Results: 4943 patients were enrolled. Median age was 69 years (interquartile range 53- 81). The NEWS2-3 presented the better performance for all-cause two-day in-hospital mortality with an AUC of 0.941 (95% CI: 0.917-0.964), showing statistical differences with both the NEWS2-1 (0.872 (95% CI: 0.833-0.911); p < 0.003) and with the NEWS2- 2 (0.895 (95% CI: 0.866-0.925; p < 0.05). The calibration and scores comparison results showed that the NEWS2-3 was the best predictive score followed by the NEWS2-2 and the NEWS2-1, respectively. Conclusions: The NEWS2 has an excellent predictive performance. The score showed a very consistent response over time with the difference between “at the emergency scene” and “pre-evacuation” presenting the sharpest change with decreased threshold values, thus displaying a drop in the risk of acute clinical impairment.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Clinical skills; Early warning score; In-hospital mortality; Physiological monitoring; Prehospital care; Vital sings
Subjects: Subjects > Biomedicine
Divisions: Europe University of Atlantic > Research > Scientific Production
Depositing User: Sr Bibliotecario
Date Deposited: 12 Jan 2022 08:41
Last Modified: 10 Jul 2023 07:05
URI: http://repositorio.funiber.org/id/eprint/487

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