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Sanlian HU
Department of Nursing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital,600 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201306, China
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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8059-1303
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Purpose
To establish a set of screening scale on the aspiration risk applicable to patients receiving enteral nutrition, determine the threshold of the scale and evaluate the scale’s reliability-validity.
Methods
Firstly, the screening scale on the aspiration risk of patients receiving enteral nutrition was mainly formed through literature search, expert brainstorming and consultation. And then a retrospective analysis was undertaken by investigating 484 patients in the intensive care unit of 19 tertiary hospitals around China from May 2019 to June 2019. Reliability-validity test on the screening scale concerning the potential aspiration risk among the vulnerable patients was performed. The items in the scale were assigned with scores through expert evaluation method. At last ROC curve was used to evaluate the diagnosis threshold of such scale.
Results
A screening scale on the aspiration risk of patients receiving enteral nutrition was established, including general conditions of patients, primary disease and the accompanying symptoms, treatment strategies, and et al. The Cronbach's a coefficient, interrater reliability, content validity index interval, and the content validity index of such scale were 0.922, 0.920, 0.812-1.000 and 0.944 respectively. All the items in the scale were presented in the form of scores with a total of 12 points. The ultimate diagnosis threshold, sensitivity and specificity were 8 points, 0.800 and 0.627 respectively.
Conclusion
The screening scale on the aspiration risk of patients receiving enteral nutrition was shown to provided precise evaluation of the potential aspiration risk of such patients with compelling sensitivity and specificity, which deserved more clinical studies to confirm its value in other patient populations in the future.
Keywords
enteral nutrition, aspiration, evaluation, scale establishment, reliability, validity
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Sanlian HU
Department of Nursing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital,600 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201306, China
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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8059-1303
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Purpose
To establish a set of screening scale on the aspiration risk applicable to patients receiving enteral nutrition, determine the threshold of the scale and evaluate the scale’s reliability-validity.
Methods
Firstly, the screening scale on the aspiration risk of patients receiving enteral nutrition was mainly formed through literature search, expert brainstorming and consultation. And then a retrospective analysis was undertaken by investigating 484 patients in the intensive care unit of 19 tertiary hospitals around China from May 2019 to June 2019. Reliability-validity test on the screening scale concerning the potential aspiration risk among the vulnerable patients was performed. The items in the scale were assigned with scores through expert evaluation method. At last ROC curve was used to evaluate the diagnosis threshold of such scale.
Results
A screening scale on the aspiration risk of patients receiving enteral nutrition was established, including general conditions of patients, primary disease and the accompanying symptoms, treatment strategies, and et al. The Cronbach's a coefficient, interrater reliability, content validity index interval, and the content validity index of such scale were 0.922, 0.920, 0.812-1.000 and 0.944 respectively. All the items in the scale were presented in the form of scores with a total of 12 points. The ultimate diagnosis threshold, sensitivity and specificity were 8 points, 0.800 and 0.627 respectively.
Conclusion
The screening scale on the aspiration risk of patients receiving enteral nutrition was shown to provided precise evaluation of the potential aspiration risk of such patients with compelling sensitivity and specificity, which deserved more clinical studies to confirm its value in other patient populations in the future.
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