[The Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC)--translation and validation of intensive care delirium checklist in accordance with guidelines]

Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther. 2009 Feb;44(2):80-6. doi: 10.1055/s-0029-1202647. Epub 2009 Feb 6.
[Article in German]

Abstract

Background: Although Delirium is the most common psychiatric disease in ICU settings, it is recognized late or not at all in up to 84 % of all cases.

Methods: Translation of the ICDSC, in accordance with ISPOR guidelines and validation by conducting a screening of 68 ICU patients.

Results: The translation process was authorized by the original author. The final German translation of the ICDSC showed a sensitivity and specificity of 89 % and 57 % respectively.

Conclusion: The ICDSC is suitable for delirium screening by nurses even on ventilated patients. Besides a high sensitivity another advantage is the possibility to screen for a subsyndromal delirium.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Delirium / classification*
  • Delirium / diagnosis
  • Delirium / nursing
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Mass Screening / methods
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Reproducibility of Results