Evaluation of delirium in critically ill patients: Validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the intensive care unit (CAM-ICU)

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1370-1379

  Ely, E Wesley ^a,c   Margolin, Richard ^a   Francis, Joseph ^a   May, Lisa ^a   Truman, Brenda ^a   Dittus, Robert ^a   Speroff, Theodore ^a   Gautam, Shiva ^a   Bernard, Gordon R ^a   Inouye, Sharon K ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Analgesics; Cognitive impairment; Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM ICU); Critical care; Delirium; Dementia; Geriatrics; Mechanical ventilation; Protocols; Respiratory diseases; Sedatives

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0034948268     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200107000-00012     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. The dilemma of delirium: Clinical and research controversies regarding diagnosis and evaluation of delirium in hospitalized elderly medical patients
2. A multicomponent intervention to prevent delirium in hospitalized older patients
3. Delirium: A symptom of how hospital care is failing older persons and a window to improve quality of hospital care
4. A prospective study of delirium in hospitalized elderly
5. Delirum: The occurrence and persistence of symptoms among elderly hospitalized patients
6. Post-operative delirium: Predictors and prognosis in elderly orthopedic patients
7. Psychiatric morbidity during the early phase of coronary care for myocardial infarction: Association with cardiac diagnosis and outcome
8. Does delirium contribute to poor hospital outcomes? A three-site epidemiologic study
9. A simple multiple system organ failure scoring system predicts mortality of patients who have sepsis syndrome
10. Intensive care syndrome
11. Intensive care unit psychosis revisited: Understanding and managing delirium in the critical care setting
12. Selecting target conditions for quality of care improvement in vulnerable older adults
13. Mechanical ventilation in a cohort of elderly patients admitted to an intensive care unit
14. Outcome of intensive care of the "oldest-old" critically ill patients
15. Age is an independent predictor of outcomes in ARDS
16. A clinical prediction rule for delirium after elective noncardiac surgery
17. The relationship of postoperative delirium with psychoactive medications
18. Clarifying confusion: The confusion assessment method
19. A symptom rating scale for delirium
20. Further analyses of the delirium rating scale
21. Detecting delirium among hospitalized older patients
22. A comparison of the reliability and validity of mental status questionnaires in hospitalized patients
23. The clinical assessment of confusion
24. A critique of instruments and methods to detect, diagnose, and rate delirium
25. Validation of a cognitive test for delirium in medical ICU patients
26. Abbreviated cognitive test for delirium
27. Delirium in hospitalized elderly
28. Prognosis after hospital discharge of older medical patients with delirium
29. Delirium in older patients
30. APACHE II: A severity of disease classification system
31. Studies of illness in the aged - The index of ADL: A standardized measure of biological and psychosocial function
32. A predictive model for delirium in hospitalized elderly medical patients based on admission characteristics
33. The association between quantitative measures of dementia and of senile change in the cerebral grey matter of elderly subjects
34. Minimental state a practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician
35. Screening for depression in elderly primary care patients
36. Cross-validation of item selection and scoring for the SF-12 health survey in nine countries: Results from the international quality of life assessment project
37. Analysis of factors that characterise health impairment in patients with chronic respiratory failure
38. Daily interruption of sedative infusions in critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation
39. A wake-up call in the intensive care unit
40. The use of continuous iv sedation is associated with prolongation of mechanical ventilation
41. Effect of a nursing implemented sedation protocol on the duration of mechanical ventilation
42. Intensive care unit syndrome: A dangerous misnomer
43. Intensive care delirium: The effect of outside deprivation in a windowless unit
44. Relationship between symptoms and motoric subtype of delirium
45. Is delirium different when it occurs in dementia? A study using the delirium rating scale