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Prospective evaluation of the Sedation-Agitation Scale for adult critically ill patients
Critical Care Medicine · 1999 · Vol. 27(7) · pp. 1325–1329
Richard R. Riker✉(Maine Medical Center)Jean T. Picard(Maine Medical Center)Gilles L. Fraser(Maine Medical Center)
Abstract
SAS is both reliable (high interrater agreement) and valid (high correlation with the Harris and Ramsay scales) in assessing agitation and sedation in adult ICU patients. SAS provides additional information by stratifying agitation into three categories (compared with one for the Ramsay scale) without sacrificing validity or reliability.
Intensive Care Unit Cognitive DisordersAnesthesia and Sedative AgentsFamily and Patient Care in Intensive Care UnitsSedationInter-rater reliabilityMedicineIntensive care unitIntensive careConstruct validityCritically illPsychometricsAnesthesiaRating scale
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AdultAgedFemaleHumansHypnotics and SedativesIntensive Care UnitsIntubationMaleMiddle AgedNursing AssessmentProspective StudiesPsychometricsPsychomotor AgitationReproducibility of ResultsObserver Variation
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