Screening for Delirium Using Family Caregivers: Convergent Validity of the Family Confusion Assessment Method and Interviewer-Rated Confusion Assessment Method - Steis, Melinda R.; Evans, Lois; Hirschman, Karen B.; Hanlon, Alexandra; Fick, Donna M.; Flanagan, Nina; Inouye, Sharon K. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), 2012)
Keywords: Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; caregiver; Caregivers; Cognition & reasoning; Confusion Assessment Method (CAM); Delirium; Delirium - diagnosis; dementia; Families & family life; Female; General aspects; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Medical screening; Older people; Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology; Prevention and actions; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Reproducibility of Results; United States--US; Human; Delirium; Evaluation; Methodology; Family study; Caregiver; Cell adhesion molecule; Method; Medical screening; Organic mental disorder; Test validation; Construct validity; Screening; Convergent validity; Interviewer; Family environment; Confusion Assessment Method (CAM); Degenerative disease; Elderly; Mental confusion; Dementia; Geriatrics