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    The development, validation and testing of a vital signs monitoring tool for early identification of deterioration in adult surgical patients
    (2011) Kyriacos, Una; Jelsma, Jennifer
    Patients often exhibit premonitory abnormalities in vital signs before an adverse clinical outcome. Patient survival may depend on the decisions of nurses to call for assistance. There is a paucity of published early warning scores (EWS) literature for general ward use from South Africa. In a public hospital in South Africa, the study aimed to develop, validate and test the impact of implementation of a modified early warning scoring (MEWS) system vital signs chart and training programme designed to improve hospital nurses’ performance in early identification of postoperative clinical and physiological deterioration in adult patients.