Early screening
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Outcome Area |
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| METEOR identifier: | 624393 |
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| Description: | A patient presenting to hospital with one or more key risk factors for delirium receives cognitive screening using a validated test. In addition, the patient and their carer, family member or other informant, are asked about any recent changes (within hours or days) in the patient’s behaviour or thinking. |
Relational attributes | |
| Indicator sets linked to this outcome area: | Clinical care standard indicators: deliriumHealth, Standard 12/09/2016 |
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| Indicators linked to this outcome area: | Delirium clinical care standard indicators: 1a-Evidence of local arrangements for cognitive screening of patients presenting to hospital with one or more key risk factors for deliriumHealth, Standard 12/09/2016 Delirium clinical care standard indicators: 1b-Proportion of older patients undergoing cognitive screening within 24 hours of admission to hospital using a validated test Health, Standard 12/09/2016 |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
| Reference documents: | ACSQHC (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care) 2015. Delirium clinical care standard. Sydney: ACSQHC. |