About the Authors
- Meghan Bateson
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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
* E-mail: meghan.bateson@nhs.scot
Affiliation ihub, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Charis A. Marwick
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.