Validated sedation assessment scales are available to guide goal-driven sedation therapy in critically ill adults.
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Supports validated sedation scales for goal-directed ICU therapy; leaves open comparative effectiveness and outcome data.
Increasing data on sedation assessment were published over the last few years, probably in response to supporting evidence that goal-driven sedation therapy improves patient outcomes. Reliability and/or validity testing exists for many of these scales. Several useful tools are available to guide sedation therapy in critically ill patients.
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Watson et al. (2004) studied this question.
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