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The MOST score is now referred to as the '''[[ALERT ~~scale~~]]'''.

The MOST score is now referred to as the '''[[ALERT Scale]]'''.

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== Adverse outcomes ==

*within 30 days of hospitalization:

* within 30 days of hospitalization:

**cardiac arrest

** cardiac arrest

**death

** death

*within first 48 hours

* within first 48 hours

**transferred to ICU from a ward

** transferred to ICU from a ward

*~~Exclusions:~~

**~~palliative care clients~~ or ~~those~~ with unknown outcomes ~~are excluded.~~

== Exclusions ==

***Unknown outcomes are those patients who are discharged to non medicine service in the hospital ~~within 30 days~~ and are unable to be tracked in the database.

* [[Palliative patient]]s

** at the time of this project this would have been patients whose first ward admission had an [[Admit Diagnosis]] or [[Comorbid Diagnosis]] diagnosis of [[Palliative Service]]

* patients with unknown outcomes

** discharged to non medicine service (e.g. Ward, ICU, OR, etc.) in the hospital and are unable to be tracked in the database.

== History and Development ==

The MOST score (ALERT Scale) was validated on data collected at HSC, SBGH, the Grace and Victoria hospital on over 11,000 patients admitted to medical units in 2004/2005.

*ALERT ~~scale~~ is based on the FIRST ward admission during a hospital stay.

*ALERT Scale is based on the FIRST ward admission during a hospital stay.

*There is no existing tool that can make such prediction for '''non ICU''' patients. This makes this equation and the research conducted by Dr. Roberts and Julie Mojica with the support of the data collection team extremely valuable.

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-The MOST score is now referred to as the '''[[ALERT scale]]'''.
+The MOST score is now referred to as the '''[[ALERT Scale]]'''.
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 == Adverse outcomes ==
-*within 30 days of hospitalization:
+* within 30 days of hospitalization:
-**cardiac arrest
+** cardiac arrest
-**death
+** death
-*within first 48 hours
+* within first 48 hours
-**transferred to ICU from a ward
+** transferred to ICU from a ward
-*Exclusions:
-**palliative care clients or those with unknown outcomes are excluded.
+== Exclusions ==
-***Unknown outcomes are those patients who are discharged to non medicine service in the hospital within 30 days and are unable to be tracked in the database.
+* [[Palliative patient]]s
+** at the time of this project this would have been patients whose first ward admission had an [[Admit Diagnosis]] or [[Comorbid Diagnosis]] diagnosis of [[Palliative Service]]
+* patients with unknown outcomes
+** discharged to non medicine service (e.g. Ward, ICU, OR, etc.) in the hospital and are unable to be tracked in the database.
 == History and Development ==
 The MOST score (ALERT Scale) was validated on data collected at HSC, SBGH, the Grace and Victoria hospital on over 11,000 patients admitted to medical units in 2004/2005.
-*ALERT scale is based on the FIRST ward admission during a hospital stay.
+*ALERT Scale is based on the FIRST ward admission during a hospital stay.
 *There is no existing tool that can make such prediction for '''non ICU''' patients. This makes this equation and the research conducted by Dr. Roberts and Julie Mojica with the support of the data collection team extremely valuable.