Table 4.

Reported versus actual sedation scale/score use

Point prevalence study	Sedation scale/score reported in national survey
	Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale	Ramsay Sedation Scale	Riker Sedation-Agitation Scale
Patients who received any sedative/analgesic agenta, n	149	56	12
Sedation scale/score used, n (%)
Assessed with reported scale/score	114 (76.5)	27 (48.2)	11 (91.7)
Assessed with different scale/score	26 (17.4)	10 (17.9)	0 (0)
Not assessed with a scale/score	9 (6.0)	19 (33.9)	1 (8.3)
Percentage of patients assessed with reported scale/score across unitsb, median (IQR)	88 (63–100)

^a Sedated patients in units that participated in the point prevalence study and reported using the indicated sedation scale/score

^b Excluding units with fewer than three eligible patients (n = 20)