Screening for delirium with the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC): a re-evaluation of the threshold for delirium.

CONCLUSION: In clinical routine, decreasing the ICDSC threshold for delirium to ≥3 increased the accuracy in detecting delirium at the cost of over-identification and is therefore recommended as the optimal threshold. Increasing the cut-off score to ≥5 decreased the concurrent validity and sensitivity; in addition, the under-detection of delirium was substantial.
PMID: 29537480 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - March 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Boettger S, Garcia Nuñez D, Meyer R, Richter A, Rudiger A, Schubert M, Jenewein J Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research