Researchers compared hospital early warning scores for clinical deterioration—here’s what they learned (3 January 2025)

Summary

In this interview, Dana Edelson, an expert in cardiac resuscitation at the University of Chicago, discusses how hospitals can best use early warning score tools to risk stratify patients—without adding to clinicians’ alarm fatigue. Dana recently co-authored a study which compared six different early warning scores designed to recognise clinical deterioration in hospitalised patients, including three proprietary AI tools.