Challenge of assessing symptoms in seriously ill intensive care unit patients: Can proxy reporters help? Critical care medicine, October 2012, Vol. 40(10), p.2760-67.
Puntillo, K.A., et al.
http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/2012/10000/Challenge_of_assessing_symptoms_in_seriously_ill.3.aspx
Determine levels of agreement among intensive care unit patients and their family members, nurses, and physicians (proxies) regarding patients’ symptoms and compare levels of mean intensity (i.e., the magnitude of a symptom sensation) and distress (i.e., the degree of emotionality that a symptom engenders) of symptoms among patients and proxy reporters.
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