Early screening
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Outcome Area |
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METeOR identifier:![]() | 624393 |
Registration status:![]() | Health, Standard 12/09/2016 |
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: delirium Health, Standard 12/09/2016 |
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 delirium Health, 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. |
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