Patients who suffer adverse events on the wards, such as cardiac arrest and death, often have vital sign abnormalities hours before the event. Early warning scores have been developed with the aim of identifying clinical deterioration early and have been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. In this review, we discuss recently developed and validated risk sco...

A network early warning system consists of several distributed sensors to detect malicious network activity. The effectiveness of such early warning systems critically depends on the sensor deployment strategy used. We therefore analysed attack patterns of malicious software collected at sensors worldwide to determine an optimal deployment strategy. Our results show that due to the small number...