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January 1, 2019Open Access

Improving the accuracy and interrater reliability of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical status classification system

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Key result

Educational session and cognitive aid significantly improve provider accuracy in assigning ASA-PS scores.

Why the study?

The accuracy and interrater reliability of the ASA Physical Status Classification System among anesthesia providers needed improvement.

Does an educational session and cognitive aid improve the accuracy and interrater reliability of anesthesia providers in using the ASA-PS classification system?

Population

Anesthesia providers

Comparison

Educational session and cognitive aid vs baseline pre-test

Design

Questionnaire-based pretest-posttest study

Authors

NBNicholas A. BaroneCentral Michigan UniversityBPB. F. Porshnev

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Implication

May improve ASA-PS interrater reliability among anesthesia providers; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.

Structured PICO

Does an educational session and cognitive aid improve the accuracy and interrater reliability of anesthesia providers in using the ASA-PS classification system?

P
Population
Anesthesia providers assigning physical status scores to five realistic patient case scenarios before and after an educational intervention.
I
Intervention
Educational session and a cognitive aid (badge buddy containing objective examples for each ASA-PS class)
C
Comparator
Baseline (pre-test without cognitive aid)
O
Outcome
Accuracy and interrater reliability in assigning physical status scores to five realistic patient case scenarios

An educational session and cognitive aid can significantly improve the accuracy and interrater reliability of anesthesia providers using the ASA-PS classification system.

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Barone et al. (2019) studied ASA-PS classification accuracy. Educational session and cognitive aid vs. Pre-test (baseline) was evaluated on Accuracy and interrater reliability of ASA-PS classification. An educational session and cognitive aid significantly improved the overall accuracy and interrater reliability of anesthesia providers in assigning ASA-PS scores.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6ab1e5f86142153e3ec08bf5https://doi.org/10.7282/t3-gc9a-nj72
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