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- Support clinical decision-making with actionable, interpretable metrics
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- Provide a foundation for advanced ML models to improve patient outcomes
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![NEWS2 scoring system](images/news2_chart.png)
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Although NEWS2 is the national standard for deterioration detection, it has well-recognised constraints:
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- **No true temporal modelling:** Although observations are charted sequentially, the scoring algorithm treats each set of vitals independently and does not incorporate trend, slope, variability, or rate-of-change.
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- **Discrete scoring limitations:** NEWS2 discretises continuous physiological signals into coarse bands and does not model interactions between multiple variables, which limits sensitivity to subtle multivariate deterioration patterns.

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