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ArticleJournal of Korean Academy of Nursing2020

Cut-Off Values of the Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Questionnaire for the Screening of Unplanned Hospital Readmission within One Year.

Jiyeon Kang, Yeon Jin Jeong, Jiwon Hong

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Article in Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Post-Intensive Care Syndrome in Family: A Concept Analysis.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jiyeon KangCollege of Nursing, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8938-7656
Yeon Jin JeongDepartment of Nursing, Dongju College, Busan, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-921X
Jiwon HongCollege of Nursing, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea. superj419@naver.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7277-4780
Dong-A University · KR

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2016R1D1A1B03936044National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2019R1A2C1011300
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThis study aimed to assign weights for subscales and items of the Post-Intensive Care Syndrome questionnaire and suggest optimal cut-off values for screening unplanned hospital readmissions of critical care survivors.

methodsSeventeen experts participated in an analytic hierarchy process for weight assignment. Participants for cut-off analysis were 240 survivors who had been admitted to intensive care units for more than 48 hours in three cities in Korea. We assessed participants using the 18-item Post-Intensive Care Syndrome questionnaire, generated receiver operating characteristic curves, and analysed cut-off values for unplanned readmission based on sensitivity, specificity, and positive likelihood ratios.

resultsCognitive, physical, and mental subscale weights were 1.13, 0.95, and 0.92, respectively. Incidence of unplanned readmission was 25.4%. Optimal cut-off values were 23.00 for raw scores and 23.73 for weighted scores (total score 54.00), with an area of under the curve (AUC) of .933 and .929, respectively. There was no significant difference in accuracy for original and weighted scores.

conclusionThe optimal cut-off value accuracy is excellent for screening of unplanned readmissions. We recommend that nurses use the Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Questionnaire to screen for readmission risk or evaluating relevant interventions for critical care survivors.

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Critical IllnessPatient ReadmissionHumansIntensive Care UnitsSurveys and QuestionnairesIntensive Care UnitPatient ReadmissionReproducibility of ResultsROC CurveSurvivor

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