“…Although the identification of respiratory deterioration is a priority in nurses' assessment (Borgert et al, 2015;Mc-Coll & Pesata, 2016), assessment of these needs is not always reflected in accurate ND because there are factors that make this process difficult, such as the similarity among the respiratory diagnoses. Accuracy studies examining the association between DC and the respective respiratory ND have been performed with diverse patient populations, such as adult postoperative period of cardiac surgery patients (Sousa et al, 2015(Sousa et al, , 2016, intensive care unit (ICU) patients (Seganfredo et al, 2017), and in newborns (Avena, Pedreira, Alves, Herdman, & Gutierrez, 2019). Overall, previous studies have explored which DC better predicts the presence/absence of their respective ND.…”