Evaluation of the introduction of a ‘Paediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS)’ with regard to alerting and deployment of the paediatric intensive care team

Evaluation of the introduction of a ‘Paediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS)’ with regard to alerting and deployment of the paediatric intensive care team - PEWS and PICU

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00036280

Enrollment

100

Registered

2025-02-26

Start date

2022-03-08

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-10-06

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Pediatric Early Warning Score

Interventions

Group 1: The study population comprises all children < 18 years of age who are inpatients at the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

No minimum to 17 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: All children who are admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit unplanned and who were previously in a normal ward of the respective hospital.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: o Children who are transferred from the emergency department to the paediatric intensive care unit. o Children who are unplanned and transferred from other hospitals. o Lack of parental consent for the storage and transfer of patient data to the study centre in anonymised form

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
PEWS Score at admission to the PICU	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Outcome of inpatients with unplanned transferred to the paediatric intensive care unit	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactAngelina Beer

Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin des Universitätsklinikums Dresden

angelina.beer@ukdd.de+49 351 458 4995

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026