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- Title
Translation and adaptation of a pediatric early warning score.
- Authors
de Oliveira Freitas Miranda, Juliana; de Camargo, Climene Laura; Nascimento Sobrinho, Carlito Lopes; Sales Portela, Daniel; Monaghan, Alan; Santana Freitas, Katia; Fonseca Mendoza, Renata
- Abstract
The Brighton Paediatric Early Warning Score (BPEWS) is an instrument developed to identify warning signs for clinical deterioration in hospitalized children. Objective: to translate and adapt the BPEWS for the Portuguese language, with the purpose of verifying its applicability in the Brazilian context studied. Method: methodological study guided by international and nationally accepted recommendations for translation and adaptation of health measurement instruments. Stages of conceptual, item, semantic, operational and pre-test equivalence are described for obtaining the BPEWS Portuguese version to be used in Brazil. Results: the BPEWS version translated and adapted for Brazilian Portuguese (BPEWS-Br) identified, in the pilot study, that 26.6% of children were presenting warning signs for clinical deterioration. Conclusion: the BPEWS-Br seems to be applicable for the context studied, and its use might help nurses in the recognition and documentation of warning signs for clinical deterioration in hospitalized Brazilian children.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PORTUGAL; CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITAL care; HOSPITAL patients; LANGUAGE &; languages; PATIENTS; PEDIATRIC nursing; PEDIATRICS; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATIONS
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2016, Vol 69, Issue 5, p833
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2015-0096