Title |
Risk scoring systems for adults admitted to the emergency department: a systematic review
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Published in |
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, February 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1757-7241-18-8 |
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Authors |
Mikkel Brabrand, Lars Folkestad, Nicola Groes Clausen, Torben Knudsen, Jesper Hallas |
Abstract |
Patients referred to a medical admission unit (MAU) represent a broad spectrum of disease severity. In the interest of allocating resources to those who might potentially benefit most from clinical interventions, several scoring systems have been proposed as a triaging tool.Even though most scoring systems are not meant to be used on an individual level, they can support the more inexperienced doctors and nurses in assessing the risk of deterioration of their patients.We therefore performed a systematic review on the level of evidence of literature on scoring systems developed or validated in the MAU. We hypothesized that existing scoring systems would have a low level of evidence and only few systems would have been externally validated. |
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