TY - JOUR T1 - What does ‘PEWing’ or ‘PEWsing’ mean? A new word in paediatrics JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 518 LP - 519 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318252 VL - 105 IS - 5 AU - Catherine Diskin AU - Rachel MacDonell AU - Blaize Whelan AU - Orla O' Shea AU - John J Fitzsimons AU - David Vaughan AU - David Coghlan Y1 - 2020/05/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/105/5/518.abstract N2 - Since 2015, a national Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) has been used in acute paediatric settings in the Ireland. At a national PEWS workshop, the terms ‘pewing’ and ‘pewsing’ were noted to have been used or overheard in clinical conversations in some settings. We sought to understand the term ‘pewing’ or ‘pewsing’ interviewing 40 frontline paediatric nurses and doctors in a tertiary hospital and 20 from other regional sites. We asked, ‘what does the term ‘pewing’ or ‘pewsing’ mean to you?’ … ER -