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Dimens Crit Care Nurs · Mar 2007
Comparative Study"Between the fixed and the changing": examining and comparing reliability and validity of 3 sedation-agitation measuring scales.
- Michal Rassin, Ronit Sruyah, Ayelet Kahalon, Reut Naveh, Irit Nicar, and Dina Silner.
- Nursing Research Unit, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zriffin, Be'er-Yaakov, Israel. rasinm@asaf.health.gov.il
- Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2007 Mar 1;26(2):76-82.
AbstractThe goal of the study was to compare the reliability and validity of 3 Sedation Agitation Scale. Two nurses and a physician conducted 130 observations simultaneously. They found an excellent interrater reliability in the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (r>0.86), and high correlations between the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale and the Sedation Agitation Scale and Visual Analog Scale scales (r=0.92, r=0.85). The research findings will help to assert Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale as a daily assessment tool in the intensive care unit, and it will pave the way for construction a sedation protocol according to the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale level.
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