Critical Care Nurses Inadequately Assess SAPS II Scores of Very Ill Patients in Real Life
Table 4
Agreement of nurse assessed SAPS II sum scores according to SAPS II tertiles and to the ICU site.
ICC
SAPS II (GS—nurses)
Absolute SAPS II (GS—nurses)
Mean
SD
Minimum
Maximum
Mean
SD
Minimum
Maximum
Overall
0.81
3.8
13.5
−33
43
10.4
9.3
0
43
Low SAPS II ( 6–31)
0.60
−5.9
10.1
−33
9
8.4
8.0
0
33
Medium SAPS II (32–47)
0.54
3.3
9.1
−24
18
8.0
5.4
0
24
High SAPS II (48–111)
0.77
14.0
13.0
−9
43
15.0
11.7
0
43
Center A
0.81
1.2
12.3
−28
31
8.5
8.9
0
31
Center B
0.77
5.3
16.9
−28
43
14.4
9.9
3
43
Center C
0.76
2.6
15.5
−33
41
11.4
10.6
0
41
Center D
0.89
6.0
8.9
−13
31
8.1
7.0
0
31
ICC: interclass correlation coefficient between gold standard and nurses. SAPS II: difference in SAPS II scores between gold standard and nurses. SD: standard deviation.
