​As part of the work to curate these tools and resources, the partners have selected the following scholarly articles that may be of interest to anyone looking to inform and improve their practices around the recognition and response to the deteriorating patient condition.

References:

Supporting Patients and Families in Early Recognition of Clinical Deterioration:

• Consumer participation in early detection of the deteriorating patient and call activation to rapid response systems: a literature review
• Experience with Family Activation of Rapid Response Teams
• Family Alert: Implementing Direct Family Activation of a Pediatric Rapid Response Team
• Successful implementation of a family and patient activated rapid response team in an adult level 1 trauma center
• Family-Initiated Rapid Response
• Implementation of Condition Help; Family Teaching and Evaluation of Family Understanding
• The effectiveness of rapid response teams activated by patients or family members of patients admitted to inpatient hospital units: a systematic review protocol
• Timing and teamwork—An observational pilot study of patients referred to a Rapid Response Team with the aim of identifying factors amenable to re-design of a Rapid Response System

Supporting Early Warning and Recognition in a Pediatric Care Setting

• A reduction in cardiac arrests and duration of clinical instability after implementation of a paediatric rapid response system
• An Integrative Review of Pediatric Early Warning System Scores
• Paediatric early warning scores on a children's ward: a quality improvement initiative
• Implementing a Pediatric Rapid Response System to Improve Quality and Patient Safety
• Prospective Evaluation of a Pediatric Inpatient Early Warning Scoring System
• Condition HELP: A Pediatric Rapid Response Team Triggered by Patients and Parents 

Supporting Early Warning and Recognition in an Obstetrical Care Setting

• Early detection of severe maternal morbidity: A retrospective assessment of the role of an Early Warning Score System
• Obstetric early warning systems to prevent bad outcome
  

Supporting Early Warning and Recognition in a General Care Setting

• Decreasing Adverse Events through Night Talks: An Interdisciplinary, Hospital-Based Quality Improvement Project
• Defining clinical deterioration
• Designing a Critical Care Nurse–Led Rapid Response Team Using Only Available Resources: 6 Years Later
• Frequency of early warning score assessment and clinical deterioration in hospitalized patients: A randomized trial
• Integrating monitor alarms with laboratory test results to enhance patient deterioration prediction
• Modified Early Warning System improves patient safety and clinical outcomes in an academic community hospital
• Multi-Tiered Observation and Response Charts: Prevalence and Incidence of Triggers, Modifications and Calls, to Acutely Deteriorating Adult Patients
• 'Changes of concern' for detecting potential early clinical deterioration: A validation study
• Inpatient Nursing Care and Early Warning Scores
• Monitoring cardiorespiratory instability: Current approaches and implications for nursing practice
• Nurses' role in detecting deterioration in ward patients: systematic literature review
• What factors influence nurses' assessment practices? Development of the Barriers to Nurses' use of Physical Assessment Scale
• Nurses' worry or concern and early recognition of deteriorating patients on general wards in acute care hospitals: a systematic review
• Nursing and Medical Perceptions of a Hospital Rapid Response System
• Nursing Surveillance and Physiological Signs of Deterioration
• 'Patients of concern' to nurses in acute care settings: A descriptive study
• Prognosis and Risk Factors for Deterioration in Patients Admitted to a Medical Emergency Department
• Recognition of the deteriorating patient
• Risk Stratification of Hospitalized Patients on the Wards
• Leading Successful Rapid Response Teams
• A Novel Configuration of a Traditional Rapid Response Team Decreases Non–Intensive Care Unit Arrests and Overall Hospital Mortality
• Barriers to activation of the rapid response system
• Do either early warning systems or emergency response teams improve hospital patient survival? A systematic review
• Do either early warning systems or emergency response teams improve hospital patient survival? A systematic review
• Rapid Response Team Simulated Training for Enhancing Patient Safety (STEPS)
• Situation awareness in undergraduate nursing students managing simulated patient deterioration
• Standardized measurement of the Modified Early Warning Score results in enhanced implementation of a Rapid Response System: A quasi-experimental study
• There is another way: empowering frontline staff caring for acutely unwell adults
• Track, trigger and teamwork: Communication of deterioration in acute medical and surgical wards
• Use of a modified early warning score system to reduce the rate of in-hospital cardiac arrest
• Using Electronic Health Record Data to Develop and Validate a Prediction Model for Adverse Outcomes in the Wards
• Vital signs monitoring and nurse–patient interaction: A qualitative observational study of hospital practice