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Diagnostic accuracy study of the VALENF instrument in hospitalization units for adults: a study protocol

Recently, the VALENF instrument, Nursing Assessment by its acronym in Spanish, was developed as a meta-tool composed of only seven items with a more parsimonious approach for nursing assessment in adult hospitalization units. This meta-tool integrates the assessment of functional capacity, the risk...

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Autores principales: González-Chordá, Víctor M., Aleixos, David Luna, Reverter, Irene Llagostera, Cervera-Gash, Àgueda, Machancoses, Francisco Herrero, Moreno-Casbas, María Teresa, Arasil, Patricia Flor, Chillerón, María Jesús Valero
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10604410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37891575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01567-4
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author González-Chordá, Víctor M.
Aleixos, David Luna
Reverter, Irene Llagostera
Cervera-Gash, Àgueda
Machancoses, Francisco Herrero
Moreno-Casbas, María Teresa
Arasil, Patricia Flor
Chillerón, María Jesús Valero
author_facet González-Chordá, Víctor M.
Aleixos, David Luna
Reverter, Irene Llagostera
Cervera-Gash, Àgueda
Machancoses, Francisco Herrero
Moreno-Casbas, María Teresa
Arasil, Patricia Flor
Chillerón, María Jesús Valero
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description Recently, the VALENF instrument, Nursing Assessment by its acronym in Spanish, was developed as a meta-tool composed of only seven items with a more parsimonious approach for nursing assessment in adult hospitalization units. This meta-tool integrates the assessment of functional capacity, the risk of pressure injuries and the risk of falls. The general objective of this project is to validate the VALENF instrument by studying its diagnostic accuracy against the instruments commonly used in nursing to assess functional capacity, the risk of pressure injuries and the risk of falls. An observational, longitudinal, prospective study is presented, with recruitment and random selection based on admissions to six adult hospitalization units of the Hospital Universitario de La Plana. The study population will be made up of patients hospitalized in these units. The inclusion criteria will be patients over 18 years of age with a nursing assessment within the first 24 h of admission and an expected length of stay greater than 48 h and who sign the informed consent form. The exclusion criteria will be transfers from other units or centers. A sample of 521 participants is estimated as necessary. The evaluation test will be the VALENF instrument, and the reference tests will be the Barthel, Braden and Downton indices. Sociodemographic variables related to the care process and results such as functional loss, falls or pressure injuries will be collected. The evolution of functional capacity, the risk of falls and the risk of pressure injuries will be analyzed. The sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive values of the VALENF instrument will be calculated and compared to those of the usual instruments. A survival analysis will be performed for pressure injuries, falls and patients with functional loss. The VALENF instrument is expected to have at least the same diagnostic validity as the original instruments. Trial registration The study will be retrospectively registered (ISRCTN 17699562, 25/07/2023).
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spelling pubmed-106044102023-10-28 Diagnostic accuracy study of the VALENF instrument in hospitalization units for adults: a study protocol González-Chordá, Víctor M. Aleixos, David Luna Reverter, Irene Llagostera Cervera-Gash, Àgueda Machancoses, Francisco Herrero Moreno-Casbas, María Teresa Arasil, Patricia Flor Chillerón, María Jesús Valero BMC Nurs Study Protocol Recently, the VALENF instrument, Nursing Assessment by its acronym in Spanish, was developed as a meta-tool composed of only seven items with a more parsimonious approach for nursing assessment in adult hospitalization units. This meta-tool integrates the assessment of functional capacity, the risk of pressure injuries and the risk of falls. The general objective of this project is to validate the VALENF instrument by studying its diagnostic accuracy against the instruments commonly used in nursing to assess functional capacity, the risk of pressure injuries and the risk of falls. An observational, longitudinal, prospective study is presented, with recruitment and random selection based on admissions to six adult hospitalization units of the Hospital Universitario de La Plana. The study population will be made up of patients hospitalized in these units. The inclusion criteria will be patients over 18 years of age with a nursing assessment within the first 24 h of admission and an expected length of stay greater than 48 h and who sign the informed consent form. The exclusion criteria will be transfers from other units or centers. A sample of 521 participants is estimated as necessary. The evaluation test will be the VALENF instrument, and the reference tests will be the Barthel, Braden and Downton indices. Sociodemographic variables related to the care process and results such as functional loss, falls or pressure injuries will be collected. The evolution of functional capacity, the risk of falls and the risk of pressure injuries will be analyzed. The sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive values of the VALENF instrument will be calculated and compared to those of the usual instruments. A survival analysis will be performed for pressure injuries, falls and patients with functional loss. The VALENF instrument is expected to have at least the same diagnostic validity as the original instruments. Trial registration The study will be retrospectively registered (ISRCTN 17699562, 25/07/2023). BioMed Central 2023-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10604410/ /pubmed/37891575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01567-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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González-Chordá, Víctor M.
Aleixos, David Luna
Reverter, Irene Llagostera
Cervera-Gash, Àgueda
Machancoses, Francisco Herrero
Moreno-Casbas, María Teresa
Arasil, Patricia Flor
Chillerón, María Jesús Valero
Diagnostic accuracy study of the VALENF instrument in hospitalization units for adults: a study protocol
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title_fullStr Diagnostic accuracy study of the VALENF instrument in hospitalization units for adults: a study protocol
title_full_unstemmed Diagnostic accuracy study of the VALENF instrument in hospitalization units for adults: a study protocol
title_short Diagnostic accuracy study of the VALENF instrument in hospitalization units for adults: a study protocol
title_sort diagnostic accuracy study of the valenf instrument in hospitalization units for adults: a study protocol
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10604410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37891575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01567-4
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