The Diagnostic Performance of the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale for Detecting Delirium in Older Emergency Department Patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 878-882

  Han, Jin H ^a,b   Vasilevskis, Eduard E ^a,b,c   Schnelle, John F ^a,b,c   Shintani, Ayumi ^b   Dittus, Robert S ^a,b,c   Wilson, Amanda ^a   Ely, E Wesley ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DSM-IV-TR; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; RICHMOND AGITATION SEDATION SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AGE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSCIOUSNESS; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DELIRIUM; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84937024214     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12706     Document Type: Article

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