ArticleRevista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P2025
Assessment of the performance of early warning scores in patients with COVID-19.
Article in Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- The predictive value of the National Early Warning Score for mortality and independent prognostic factors in patients with coronavirus disease 2019: A retrospective cohort study.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo assess the performance of the early warning scores Modified Early Warning Score, National Early Warning Score 2, National Early Warning Score Age and quick Sepsis Related Organ Failure Assessment for identifying clinical deteriorations in patients with COVID-19.
methodA retrospective cohort study. Patients with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 were included. Clinical deteriorations were acute respiratory failure, shock and cardiorespiratory arrest, and the outcomes were unscheduled admission to the Intensive Care Unit, discharge and death. The sensitivity and probability of a positive result in patients (true positive) and the specificity and probability of a negative result in non-patients (true negative) were determined.
resultsThe National Early Warning Score 2 and the National Early Warning Score Age showed better sensitivity values for early identification of deteriorations and outcomes.
conclusionNEWS 2 and NEWS A showed better sensitivity and specificity, and their use is recommended to support the clinical assessment of patients with COVID-19. This study contributes to healthcare practice by assessing scores that can improve clinical assessment, allowing rapid identification of signs of deterioration in patients affected by COVID-19 and early interventions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.