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Nurse concern: a predictor of patient deterioration
Gary Kenward1, Timothy Hodgetts
1Accident and Emergency Department, Frimley Park Hospital, Camberley, Surrey.
Nursing Times
|August 10, 2002
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.