BET 1: Screening for delirium within the emergency department Journal Articles

abstract

• A shortcut review was carried out to see if the abbreviated mental test score was better than other cognitive screening tools to diagnose delirium in the ED. Fourteen papers were identified reporting on 10 separate ED studies. Only one small study used the abbreviated mental test score and did not compare the diagnostic performance to any other test. There is very little published research on the use of the abbreviated mental test score in the ED setting.

authors

• Beales, LK
• Mercuri, Mat

status

• published 

publication date

• October 2016

has subject area

• 1103 Clinical Sciences (FoR)
• 1110 Nursing (FoR)
• 1117 Public Health and Health Services (FoR)
• Aged (MeSH)
• Aged, 80 and over (MeSH)
• Delirium (MeSH)
• Emergency & Critical Care Medicine (Science Metrix)
• Emergency Service, Hospital (MeSH)
• Geriatric Assessment (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Mass Screening (MeSH)

published in

• Emergency Medicine Journal  Journal

keywords

• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Delirium
• Emergency Service, Hospital
• Geriatric Assessment
• Humans
• Mass Screening

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1136/emermed-2016-206204.1

PubMed ID

• 27651501

start page

• 741.2

end page

• 743

volume

• 33

issue

• 10