Concordance of expert clinicians' interpretations of the newborn's true physiological state.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many physiological aspects of the neonatal transition after birth are unobservable because relevant sensors do not yet exist, compromising clinicians' understanding of a neonate's physiological status. Given that a neonate's true physiological state is currently unavailable, we explored the feasibility of using clinicians' degree of concordance as an approximation of the true physiological state.

Methods

Two phases of structured interviews were conducted. In Phase 1 (N = 8) and Phase 2 (N = 12), we presented neonatal experts with eight graphical trajectories of real newborns' heart rate and oxygen saturation values in the first 10-15 min after birth. We elicited the participants' interpretations of potential underlying physiological conditions that could explain t

SUBMITTER: Zestic J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8236569 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature