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Table 3 The maximum Bedside Paediatric Early Warning System scores by retrospective nurse rating of surprise 'if your patient had a patient care emergency while you were on break'a

From: Multicentre validation of the bedside paediatric early warning system score: a severity of illness score to detect evolving critical illness in hospitalised children

Nurses' rating

All patients

Case patients

Control patients

 

Degree of surprise

n

Maximum BPEWS score*

n

Maximum BPEWS scoreb

n

Maximum BPEWS scoreb

P value

Not at all (1)

99

10 (7 to 14)

94

10.5(7 to 14)

5

2 (1 to 9)

0.020

Not very (2)

179

8 (5 to 12)

139

10 (6 to 13)

40

4 (1.5 to 6)

< 0.0001

Somewhat (3)

203

5 (2 to 9)

85

9 (5 to 12)

118

3 (2 to 5)

< 0.0.001

Very (4)

601

2 (1 to 4)

89

6 (3 to 9)

512

2 (1 to 3)

< 0.0001

Extremely (5)

395

2 (1 to 3)

31

5 (3 to 8)

364

2 (1 to 3)

< 0.0001

All

1,477

3 (1 to 6)

438

9 (5 to 12)

1,039

2 (1 to 3)

< 0.0001

  1. aData are from 1,477 children in admitted to inpatient wards of four university-affiliated hospitals. Bedside PEWS (BPEWS) scores were higher in case patients compared with all control patients in each surprise category. bMedian (IQR) score.
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