Agate respiratory distress syndrome:: Underrecognition by clinicians and diagnostic accuracy of three clinical definitions
Agate respiratory distress syndrome:: Underrecognition by clinicians and diagnostic accuracy of three clinical definitions
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DOI:
10.1097/01.ccm.0000181529.08630.49
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发表时间:
2005-10-01
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Stewart, TE
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作者:
Ferguson, ND;Frutos-Vivar, F;Stewart, TE
Objective: To determine and compare the diagnostic accuracy of three clinical definitions of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): (1) the American-European consensus conference definition; (2) the lung injury score; and (3) a recently developed Delphi definition. A second objective was to determine the accuracy of clinical diagnoses of ARDS made in daily practice.Design: Independent comparison of autopsy findings with the daily status of clinical definitions, constructed with data abstracted retrospectively from medical records.Setting: Tertiary intensive care unit.Patients: One hundred thirty-eight patients from the period 1995 through 2001 who were autopsied after being mechanically ventilated.Interventions: Clinical ARDS diagnoses were determined daily without knowledge of autopsy results. Charts were reviewed for any mention of ARDS in the clinical notes. Autopsies were reviewed independently by two pathologists for the presence of diffuse alveolar damage. The sensitivity and specificity of the definitions were determined with use of diffuse alveolar damage at autopsy as the reference standard.Measurements and Main Results: Diffuse alveolar damage at autopsy was documented in 42 of 138 cases (30.4%). Only 20 of these 42 patients (47.6%) had any mention of ARDS in their chart. Sensitivities and specificities (95% confidence intervals) were as follows: American-European definition, 0.83 (0.72-0.95), 0.51 (0.41-0.61); lung injury score, 0.74 (0.61-0.87), 0.77 (0.69-0.86); and Delphi definition, 0.69 (0.55-0.83), 0.82 (0.75-0.90). Specificity was significantly higher for both the lung injury score and Delphi definition than for the American-European definition (p