Guidelines for specific settings

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The purpose of this initiative is to develop guidelines for recognising and responding to clinical deterioration, based on the elements in the consensus statement, in three specific settings:

1. smaller facilities


2. caring for paediatric patients, and


3. caring for patients with psychiatric conditions.

The guidelines will provide detailed guidance about how the elements in the consensus statement can be achieved. They will take account of the specific issues and evidence related to each of the settings for which they will be developed.

Updated: 04 February, 2010

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