Bedside PEWS
Seven-item score to quantify severity and detect evolving clinical deterioration in hospitalized pediatric patients.
What is Bedside PEWS?
Bedside PEWS: Seven-item score to quantify severity and detect evolving clinical deterioration in hospitalized pediatric patients. Active calculation. Popula…
Population and scope
Clinical Deterioration. Children hospitalized on inpatient wards
Also searched as
Bedside PEWS · bedside pews · pediatric early warning · clinical deterioration · pews bedside · deterioro pediatrico
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Clinical use
This PedsCore page brings together clinical information, implementation status and available evidence for Bedside PEWS. It is intended for Children hospitalized on inpatient wards. The tool belongs to Pediatric emergency and should be interpreted in the appropriate clinical context.
Interpretation and validation
Local implementation of the original seven-item Bedside PEWS (0-26), traced to Parshuram et al. 2009 and the 2011 multicentre validation. The original article and scoring table were published under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0); PedsCore reuses the scoring logic with explicit attribution. The result quantifies severity/deterioration in hospitalized children and does not embed a universal escalation, ICU-admission, or treatment protocol. In the original study, a score of 8 had 82% sensitivity and 93% specificity; this is displayed as study performance, not as an action threshold.
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Clinical review and maintenance
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Editorial transparency
This page is part of an open-source project. Evidence level, implementation status, validation notes and sources are shown explicitly. It currently contains 2 catalog references. Content and calculation changes are reviewed through the public repository, automated tests and version traceability.
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References
- Parshuram CS, Hutchison J, Middaugh K. Development and initial validation of the Bedside Paediatric Early Warning System score. Crit Care. 2009;13(4):R135.
- Parshuram CS, Duncan HP, Joffe AR, et al. Multicentre validation of the bedside paediatric early warning system score: a severity of illness score to detect evolving critical illness in hospitalised children. Crit Care. 2011;15(4):R184.