Objectives: Delirium is a common neuropsychiatric condition with many adverse outcomes
in elderly populations including death. Despite this, it is often misdiagnosed and mistreated …

Over the past several decades, numerous investigators have studied the syndrome of
delirium. Researchers have relied on a number of different case finding methods to detect …

The objective of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of a new instrument,
the Delirium Index (DI), to measure changes in the severity of the symptoms of delirium …

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Delirium manifests clinically in varying ways across settings.
More than 40 instruments currently exist for characterizing the different manifestations of …

In addition to diagnostic criteria, delirium research requires standardized instruments to
measure symptoms. This article reviews the literature about the Delirium Rating Scale …

This document reviews existing instruments for evaluation of delirium. Instruments have
been grouped into four categories: tests that screen for cognitive impairment, delirium …

The Delirium Rating Scale is a clinician-rated, 10-item symptom rating scale for assessment
of delirium severity. In order to better understand the relationship between items of the scale …

Background Delirium is a disorder that besides four essential features consists of different
combinations of symptoms. We reviewed the clinical classification of clusters of symptoms in …

Explicit operational definitions of the DSM‐3 criteria for delirium have recently been
published. In this study, the reliability of the Delirium Assessment Scale (DAS), which uses …

The purpose of this paper was to contribute to a new conceptual understanding of delirium
by reviewing evidence related to its prevention, treatment, and outcome. The review process …