ArticleScandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine2025
Pediatric Early Warning Score in interhospital ambulance care: a pilot study exploring feasibility and impact.
Article in Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Preselection of stable children limits inference about DA-PEWS transport safety.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundPediatric Early Warning Scores (PEWS) are commonly used for early recognition of clinical deterioration in hospitalized children and timely intervention. In 2019, a national Dutch PEWS was developed for pediatric hospital care in the Netherlands. To improve communication during interhospital transfers, using Dutch PEWS in interhospital ambulance care might be of added value in the chain of care. Therefore, this pilot study aimed to explore the feasibility and impact of the Dutch PEWS in interhospital ambulance care.
methodsUsing the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle, a four-step model for carrying out change, the Dutch PEWS system was first adopted for use in interhospital ambulance care, resulting in Dutch-Ambulance-PEWS (DA-PEWS) (Plan). This system was implemented in one ambulance region: the Regional Ambulance Service Utrecht (RAVU) (Do). Feasibility for implementing DA-PEWS nationwide and impact were evaluated. To do so, one baseline questionnaire and semi-structured interviews at the start of and at three, six, and twelve months after implementation were used (Study). Based on the results, approaches were developed to disseminate the DA-PEWS to national ambulance care (Act).
resultsMain impact themes that emerged included the enhancement of situational awareness, communication in the chain of care through improvements in uniformity and handovers and improved protocol adherence. Using the system in the interhospital care setting was considered feasible, but for future upscaling of the implementation and efficacy, determinants such as variation in organizational structures, the limited frequency of pediatric interhospital transfers and differences in individual attitudes toward using one system are first steps to consider.
conclusionThis pilot study showed impact of using the DA-PEWS in interhospital ambulance care in the Netherlands, while also revealing important lessons for the implementation of the DA-PEWS nationwide due to local contextual factors in the organization of ambulance care across regions.
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