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Nurse concern: a predictor of patient deterioration.

PubMedPublished 23 September 2002
Gary Kenward, Timothy Hodgetts
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TL;DR

How an intuitive sense of when a patient's condition is deteriorating can be quantified and presented to medical staff so that patients receive timely and appropriate intervention is discussed.

Abstract

Nurses who have cared for a patient for some time often develop an intuitive sense of when that patient's condition is deteriorating. This article discusses how this intuition can be quantified and presented to medical staff so that patients receive timely and appropriate intervention.

Keywords

Health Professions