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Table 1

From: Comparison of general medical and general surgical nursing intervention following Early Warning Score triggers

 

Patients on medical ward

Patients on surgical ward

Fisher's exact test, P

Total triggering

500

398

 

Nurse therapy as first intervention

301 (60%)

42 (16%)

< 0.0001

EWS successfully reduced by nurse therapy

188 (62%)

42 (61%)

NS

Patients who retrigger following nurse therapy

110

18

NS

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