New Delirium Severity Indicators: Generation and Internal Validation in the Better Assessment of Illness (BASIL) Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Delirium is a common and preventable geriatric syndrome. Moving beyond the binary classification of delirium present/absent, delirium severity represents a potentially important outcome for evaluating preventive and treatment interventions and tracking the course of patients. Although several delirium severity assessment tools currently exist, most have been developed in the absence of advanced measurement methodology and have not been evaluated with rigorous validation studies.

Objective

We aimed to report our development of new delirium severity items and the results of item reduction and selection activities guided by psychometric analysis of data derived from a field study.

Methods

Building on our literature review of delirium instruments and expert pan

SUBMITTER: Vasunilashorn SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7484102 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature