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. 2017 Dec 6;17:38. doi: 10.1186/s12873-017-0148-z

Table 3.

Types of scores developed and/or validated in the included studies

Types of scores examined in the included development/validation studies
Single-parameter systems Aggregate weighted scores
ED Critical Instability Criteria (ED CIC) [39]
Emergency severity index (ESI) [32]
Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation score (APACHE II) [31, 33, 52, 59]
Assessment Score for Sick patient Identification and Step-up in Treatment (ASSIST) [50]
Bispebjerg EWS (BEWS) [30]
Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) [32, 38, 60]
Early Warning Score (EWS) [55]
Logistic Organ Dysfunction System (LODS) [48]
Mainz Emergency Evaluation Score (MEES) [35]
Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) [18, 29, 31, 32, 3538, 4144, 50, 51, 54, 5658, 60, 63]
MEWS plus [43]
Modified REMS (mREMS) [45]
Morbidity Probability Model at admission (MPMO II) [48]
National Early Warning Score (NEWS) [35, 40, 47, 49, 53]
National Early Warning Score including Lactate (NEWS-L) [47]
Patient Status Index (PSI) [61]
Predisposition, Insult/Infection, Response, and Organ dysfunction model (PIRO) [59]
Prince of Wales ED Score (PEDS) [31, 35]
Rapid Acute Physiology Score (RAPS) [33, 34]
Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS) [29, 31, 3335, 37]
Revised Trauma Score (RTS) [31]
Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) [52]
Simple Clinical Score (SCS) [35]
New Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) [48, 52]
The Resuscitation Management score (THERM) [35]
Triage Early Warning Score (TEWS) [62]
VitalPAC Early Warning Score (VIEWS) [41]
VitalPAC Early Warning Score-Lactate (VIEWS-L) [46]

No multiple parameter systems were identified