Psychometric Properties of a Delirium Severity Score for Older Adults and Association With Hospital and Posthospital Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The ability to rate delirium severity is key to providing optimal care for older adults, and such ratings would allow clinicians to target patients with severe delirium and monitor response to treatment, recovery time, and prognosis; assess nursing burden and staffing needs; and, ultimately, provide more appropriate patient-centered care. Current delirium severity measures have been limited in their content, gradations, and measurement characteristics.

Objective

To examine the internal consistency, reliability, and validity for clinical outcomes of the DEL-S delirium severity score, a measure of delirium severity that was developed using advanced psychometric approaches, analogous to those of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System initiative.

SUBMITTER: Vasunilashorn SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8972033 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature