Palliative sedation: Reliability and validity of sedation scales

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 704-714

  Arevalo, Jimmy J ^a,b   Brinkkemper, Tijn ^a,c   Van Der Heide, Agnes ^b   Rietjens, Judith A ^b,c   Ribbe, Miel ^a,c,d   Deliens, Luc ^a,c,d   Loer, Stephan A ^a   Zuurmond, Wouter W A ^a,d,e   Perez, Roberto S G M ^a,c,d,e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Center of Expertise in Palliative Care Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

^e Hospice Kuria   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

monitoring; palliative sedation; reliability; Scales; validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINNESOTA SEDATION ASSESSMENT TOOL; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PALLIATIVE SEDATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RICHMOND AGITATION SEDATION SCALE; ROYAL DUTCH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SEDATION SCORE; SEDATION; VANCOUVER INTERACTION AND CALMNESS SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84868550599     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2011.11.010     Document Type: Article

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