​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 (2015)
  
• The effectiveness of rapid response teams activated by patients or family members of patients admitted to inpatient hospital units: a systematic review protocol (2014)

• Consumers' perspectives on their involvement in recognizing and respondingto patient deterioration-Developing a model for consumer reporting (2018)     

• Developing and evaluating the success of a family activated medical emergency team: a quality improvement report (2014)   

• Barriers and facilitators to implementing a process to enable parent escalation of care for the deteriorating child in hospital (2018)  

• Patient perceptions of deterioration and patient and family activated escalation systems—A qualitative study (2017)   

• Condition Help: A Patient- and Family-Initiated Rapid Response System (2017) 

• Is there a role for patients and their relatives in escalating clinical deterioration in hospital? A systematic review (2016)  

• Advance care planning in the context of clinical deterioration: a systematic review of the literature (2019)  

• Validity and effectiveness of paediatric early warning systems and track and trigger tools for identifying and reducing clinical deterioration in hospitalised children: a systematic review. (2018)
  

Supporting Early Warning and Recognition in a Pediatric Care Setting 

• An Integrative Review of Pediatric Early Warning System Scores (2015)
  
• Paediatric early warning scores on a children's ward: a quality improvement initiative (2014)

• No more pediatric code blues on the floor: evolution of pediatric rapid response teams and situational awareness plans. (2018)

• Rapid Response Teams in Pediatric Patients: WellIntentioned, but Do They Really Help? (2018)

• Barriers and facilitators toimplementing a process to enable parent escalation of care for thedeteriorating child in hospital (2018)

• Implementation of a Formal DebriefingProgram After Pediatric Rapid Response Team Activations (2018)
• Association of Pediatric Medical Emergency Teams With Hospital Mortality (2017)
• Paediatric early warning systems for detecting and responding to clinical deterioration in children: a systematic review (2017)

• Comparison of Pediatric Early WarningScore to Physician Opinion for Deteriorating Patients (2015)

• The Simulation-Based Assessment of Pediatric Rapid Response Teams. (2017)
  

• Frequency of medical emergency team activation prior to pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  

• Implementing a Quality and Safety Agenda in a Children's Hospital Within a Hospital: Challenges and Successes. (2016)
  

• Watcher Initiative Associated With Decrease in Failure to Rescue Events in Pediatric Population (2017)
  

• Improving Pediatric Rapid Response Team Performance Through Crew Resource Management Training of Team Leaders (2016)
  

Supporting Early Warning and Recognition in an Obstetrical Care Setting

• Obstetric early warning systems to prevent bad outcome (2016)

• Early warning systems in obstetrics: A systematic literature review (2019) 

• Implementing Obstetric Early Warning Systems (2018) 

• Use of the Maternal Early Warning Trigger Tool for Early Recognition of Deterioration in Women During Birth (2019)

• Maternal Early Warning Scores (MEWS) 2018 

• Use of Maternal Early Warning Trigger tool reduces maternal morbidity (2016) 

• Constructing maternal morbidity – towards a standard tool to measure and monitor maternal health beyond mortality (2016) 

• Obstetrical Triage Acuity Scale

• Maternal Early Warning Systems
  

Supporting Early Warning and Recognition in a General Care Setting

• Frequency of early warning score assessment and clinical deterioration in hospitalized patients: A randomized trial (2016)
  
• Modified Early Warning System improves patient safety and clinical outcomes in an academic community hospital (2015)
  
• Nurses' worry or concern and early recognition of deteriorating patients on general wards in acute care hospitals: a systematic review (2015)
  
• Nursing and Medical Perceptions of a Hospital Rapid Response System (2016)
  
• Barriers to activation of the rapid response system (2014)
  
• Using Electronic Health Record Data to Develop and Validate a Prediction Model for Adverse Outcomes in the Wards (2014)
• Rapid response systems: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2015)
• Fostering self-determination of bedside providers to promote active participation in rapid response events (2019)

• Is there a role for patients and theirrelatives in escalating clinical deterioration in hospital? A systematic review (2016)