Face and content validity of variables associated with the difficult-to-sedate child in the paediatric intensive care unit: A survey of paediatric critical care clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinicians recognise that some critically ill children are difficult-to-sedate. It may be possible to identify this clinical phenotype for sedation response using statistical modelling techniques adopted from machine learning. This requires identification of a finite number of variables to include in the statistical model.

Objective

To establish face and content validity for 17 candidate variables identified in the international literature as characteristic of the difficult-to-sedate child phenotype.

Methods

Paediatric critical care clinicians rated the relevance of 17 variables characterising the difficult-to-sedate child using a four-point scale ranging from not (1) to highly relevant (4). Face and content validity of these variables were assessed by calc

SUBMITTER: Lebet RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5936660 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature