Marjon Borgert

42 Chapter 2 Supplementary File 2 Description of included general wards. Specialty/ward Surgery (Yes/No) Study arm Pre-de ned alteration of protocol, if applicable Exclusion of patients Pulmonology No Protocolized Patients admitted for sleep apnoea registration. Kidney diseases No Protocolized All patients admitted for sleep apnoea registration, uid deprivation tests for diabetes insipidus, synacthen tests or research patients in general. Cardiology No Clinically indicated Internal medicine/ infectious diseases No Clinically indicated Internal medicine/ Rheumatology No Protocolized Internal Medicine/Gastro- intestinal diseases No Protocolized Abdominal surgery Yes Protocolized After ‘moments at risk’: MEWS measured three times daily for subsequent ve days after which the MEWS is determined as clinically indicated unless patient encountered a new moment at risk. General/oncology surgery and mouth/jaw surgery Yes Protocolized Identical as previous ward ‘abdominal surgery’. Urology and short-stay surgery Yes Protocolized All patients other than those admitted for: radical cystectomy (Bricker) and cystectomy with orthotopic bladder construction, laparoscopic and open radical nephrectomy and laparoscopic and open radical prostatectomy including according to Millin.