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Tool / guidance28 October 2025

Veterinary early warning score

This tool can be used to identify patients at risk of deterioration.
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Veterinary early warning score

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The Veterinary Early Warning Score (VEWS) can be used to identify those patients at risk of deterioration.

You can share this resource with credit to RCVS Knowledge and Belinda Andrews-Jones VTS (ECC) Dip AVN (Surg) CMgr RVN PG Dip Vet Ed MInstLM FCMI FHEA.

You should reference this resource like this: RCVS Knowledge and Andrews-Jones (2023). Veterinary Early Warning Score. [Online] Available at rcvsknowledge.org/VEWS

This document was published in October 2023.

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