Monitoring Sedation Status Over Time in ICU Patients Reliability and Validity of the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS)
E. Wesley Ely, Brenda Truman, Ayumi Shintani, Jason W. W. Thomason, Arthur P. Wheeler, Sharon Gordon, Joseph Francis, Theodore Speroff, Shiva Gautam, Richard Margolin, Curtis N. Sessler, Robert S. Dittus, Gordon R. Bernard
JAMA 2003
Context: Goal-directed delivery of sedative and analgesic medications is recommended as standard care in intensive care units (ICUs) because of the impact these medications have on ventilator weaning and ICU length of stay, but few of the available sedation scales have been appropriately tested for reliability and validity.
Objective:To test the reliability and validity of the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS).
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: Adult medical and coronary ICUs of a university-based medical center.
Participants: Thirty-eight medical ICU patients enrolled for reliability testing (46% receiving mechanical ventilation) from July 21, 1999, to September 7, 1999, and an independent cohort of 275 patients receiving mechanical ventilation were enrolled for validity testing from February 1, 2000, to May 3, 2001.
Main Outcome Measures: Inter-rater reliability of the RASS, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), and Ramsay Scale (RS); validity of the RASS correlated with reference standard ratings, assessments of content of consciousness, GCS scores, doses of sedatives and analgesics, and bispectral electroencephalography.
Results: In 290-paired observations by nurses, results of both the RASS and RS demonstrated excellent inter-rater reliability (weighted k, 0.91 and 0.94, respectively), which were both superior to the GCS (weighted k, 0.64; P <.001 for both comparisons). Criterion validity was tested in 411-paired observations in the first 96 patients of the validation cohort, in whom the RASS showed significant differences between levels of consciousness (P_.001 for all) and correctly identified fluctuations within patients over time (P <.001). In addition, 5 methods were used to test the construct validity of the RASS, including correlation with an attention screening examination (r=0.78, P<.001), GCS scores (r=0.91, P_.001), quantity of different psychoactive medication dosages 8 hours prior to assessment (eg, lorazepam: r=−0.31, P< .001), successful extubation (P=.07), and bispectral electroencephalography (r=0.63, P< .001). Face validity was demonstrated via a survey of 26 critical care nurses, which the results showed that 92% agreed or strongly agreed with the RASS scoring scheme, and 81% agreed or strongly agreed that the instrument provided a consensus for goal-directed delivery of medications.
Conclusions: The RASS demonstrated excellent inter-rater reliability and criterion, construct, and face validity. This is the first sedation scale to be validated for its ability to detect changes in sedation status over consecutive days of ICU care, against constructs of level of consciousness and delirium, and correlated with the administered dose of sedative and analgesic medications.
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