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Ineffective breathing pattern: defining characteristics in children with acute respiratory infection
Livia Maia Pascoal1, Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes, Viviane Martins da Silva
1Federal University of Maranhão, Imperatriz, Brazil.
Purpose:
To determine the accuracy of NANDA-I defining characteristics for the nursing diagnosis, ineffective breathing pattern, in children with acute respiratory infection.
Methods:
This was a prospective cohort study in 136 children. Measures of accuracy were calculated for the defining characteristics.
Findings:
Use of accessory muscles to breathe presented the best measure of accuracy. Alterations in depth of breathing presented a high value of sensitivity. Altered chest excursion and orthopnea presented high values of specificity.
Conclusions:
Use of accessory muscles to breathe showed the best predictive capacity for ineffective breathing pattern.
Implications For Nursing Practice:
Measures of accuracy can contribute to an accurate diagnostic inference process, improving patient assessment and facilitating rapid, accurate diagnosis.
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