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. 2015 Feb;15(1):98. doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-1-98a

Clinical and scientific letters: The national early warning score gives misleading scores for oxygen saturation in patients at risk of hypercapnia

B Ronan O’Driscoll, Kirstie Grant, Darren Green, Simon Edeghere, Nawar Diar Bakerly, Peter Murphy, Val Edwards, Peter M Turkington
PMCID: PMC4954539  PMID: 25650212

Clinical Medicine 2014;14:695–696.

An error was introduced to Table 1 of this article. A corrected table is printed below.

Table 1.

Application of the oxygen section of the NEWS chart to 400 routine observations rounds for 22 patients on a respiratory ward with target oxygen saturation range of 88–92%.

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