Inter-rater agreement between patient- and proxy-reported cognitive functioning in intensive care unit patients: A cohort study
Health status, including cognitive functioning before critical illness, is associated with long-term outcomes in intensive care unit survivors. Premorbid data are therefore of importance in longitudinal studies. Few patients can self-report at intensive care admission. Consequently, proxy assessments of patients' health status are used. However, it remains unclear how accurately proxies can report on an intensive care patient's cognitive status.
Source: Australian Critical Care - Category: Nursing Authors: Malin Brandvold, Tone Rust øen, Milada Hagen, Jan Stubberud, Mark van den Boogaard, Kristin Hofsø Tags: Research paper Source Type: research