Physiological Assessment of Delirium Severity: The Electroencephalographic Confusion Assessment Method Severity Score (E-CAM-S).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Delirium is a common and frequently underdiagnosed complication in acutely hospitalized patients, and its severity is associated with worse clinical outcomes. We propose a physiologically based method to quantify delirium severity as a tool that can help close this diagnostic gap: the Electroencephalographic Confusion Assessment Method Severity Score (E-CAM-S).

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Single-center tertiary academic medical center.

Patients

Three-hundred seventy-three adult patients undergoing electroencephalography to evaluate altered mental status between August 2015 and December 2019.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

We developed the E-CAM-S based on a learning-to-rank machine learning model of for

SUBMITTER: van Sleuwen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8678335 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature