Early screening
Outcome Area Attributes
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 |
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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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