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Master of Public Health

Validity of a Modified Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score Using the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale.

AUTHORS

Vasilevskis EE , Pandharipande PP , Graves AJ , Shintani A , Tsuruta R , Ely EW , Girard TD , . Critical care medicine. 2015 10 9; ().

ABSTRACT

The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment and other severity of illness scales rely on the Glasgow Coma Scale to measure acute neurologic dysfunction, but the Glasgow Coma Scale is unavailable or inconsistently applied in some institutions. The objective of this study was to assess the validity of a modified Sequential Organ Failure Assessment that uses the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale instead of Glasgow Coma Scale.

The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment and other severity of illness scales rely on the Glasgow Coma Scale to measure acute neurologic dysfunction, but the Glasgow Coma Scale is unavailable or inconsistently applied in some institutions. The objective of this study was to assess the validity of a modified Sequential Organ Failure Assessment that uses the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale instead of Glasgow Coma Scale.

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