CAC-B: Clinical Assessment of Confusion-B
1992A 58-item nursing assessment of confusion comprising one screening item and seven behavioural and functional subscales. The original 1992 source established content and reliability properties, not criterion validity for delirium.
Classification
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Tool and original sources
This record describes a method rather than a downloadable bedside form. The main source is linked below.
Original paper
- Source bookFunk SG, ed.. Key Aspects of Elder Care: Managing Falls, Incontinence, and Cognitive Impairment. Springer Publishing Company. 1992.
This is the principal published source for CAC-B itself. It is the main source for the method, its intended use and the evidence available at publication.
At a glance
- Purpose
- Episodic assessment
- Population
- Adult
- Setting
- General / acute hospital, Long-term / care home
- Time
- ~10 min
- Items
- 58
- Score or threshold
- Study-defined CAC-B cutoff; exact cutoff pending
Format: CAC-B contains 58 ratings organised as one screening item and seven subscales spanning cognition, behaviour, motor and sensory function, orientation, safety, psychiatric behaviour, and interaction or daily function. Ratings reflect severity and persistence over observation, typically taking about ten minutes.
Evidence
Reported sensitivity and specificity
Later validation or evaluation · 2002 — pmid:11829220
- Denominator
- Reported source unit: 74 (analysis unit not fully reconciled)
- Reference standard
- DSM-IV criteria for delirium
Earliest DTA evaluation identified in the current audit; see the linked source and methodological caveats.
More evidence and citation details
- Full name
- Clinical Assessment of Confusion-B
- Also known as
- CAC-B, Clinical Assessment of Confusion B
- Related profiles
- CAC-A
- Evidence summary
- single-DTA
- Diagnostic-accuracy studies
- 1
- Reference standard
- DSM-IV criteria for delirium
- Citation
- Funk SG, ed. Key Aspects of Elder Care: Managing Falls, Incontinence, and Cognitive Impairment Springer Publishing Company. 1992;.
Copyright and reuse
- Information checked
- 2026-07-19
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