About the Authors

Meghan Bateson

Contributed equally to this work with: Meghan Bateson, Charis A. Marwick, Kevin D. Rooney

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

meghan.bateson@nhs.scot

Affiliation ihub, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Charis A. Marwick

Contributed equally to this work with: Meghan Bateson, Charis A. Marwick, Kevin D. Rooney

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health & Genomics Division, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

Harry J. Staines

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Healthcare Biometrics, Sigma Statistical Services, Balmullo, United Kingdom

Andrea Patton

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Elaine Stewart

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Kevin D. Rooney

Contributed equally to this work with: Meghan Bateson, Charis A. Marwick, Kevin D. Rooney

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: K.R. was the National Clinical Lead for Sepsis and the Deteriorating Patient workstream of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme between May 2012 and October 2017. As such, he was instrumental in the National Sepsis strategy and the recommendation and adoption of NEWS across Scotland.