title: Assessment of intraoperative awareness with explicit recall: a comparison of 2 methods.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Superiority of the modified Brice interview over quality assurance techniques in detecting intraoperative awareness with explicit recall has not been demonstrated definitively.
  
  
  METHODS
  We studied a single patient cohort to compare the detection of definite awareness using a single modified Brice interview (postoperative day 28-30) versus quality assurance data (postoperative day 1).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The incidence of awareness based on the modified Brice interview was 19 per 18,847 or 0.1%. Fewer awareness cases (incidence 0.02%) were detected by the quality assurance approach (P < 0.0001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The modified Brice interview is the preferred modality for assessing intraoperative awareness with explicit recall.
authors: Division of Neuroanesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, 1H247 UH/SPC-5048, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5048, USA. gmashour@umich.ed
authors: George A
authors: GA
authors: Mashour
authors: Christopher
authors: C
authors: Kent
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Picton
authors: Satya Krishna
authors: SK
authors: Ramachandran
authors: Kevin K
authors: KK
authors: Tremper
authors: Christopher R
authors: CR
authors: Turner
authors: Amy
authors: A
authors: Shanks
authors: Michael S
authors: MS
authors: Avidan
mesh_terms: D015331:Cohort Studies; D056805:Consciousness Monitors; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D058926:Intraoperative Awareness / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D011939:Mental Recall; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care