DMC: Delirium Motoric Checklist
2008A 30-item research checklist combining 21 hyperactive and nine hypoactive motor features. It supplied the item pool from which the shorter DMSS was derived.
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This record describes a method rather than a downloadable bedside form. The main source is linked below.
Original paper
- Principal sourceMeagher DJ, Moran M, Raju B, Gibbons D, Donnelly S, Saunders J, et al. Motor symptoms in 100 patients with delirium versus control subjects: comparison of subtyping methods. Psychosomatics. 2008;49(4):300-8. doi: 10.1176/appi.psy.49.4.300. PMID: 18621935.
This is the principal published source for DMC. It is the main source for the method, its intended use and the evidence available at publication.
At a glance
- Purpose
- Motor symptoms assessment
- Population
- Adults with delirium and comparison patients
- Setting
- General / acute hospital, Palliative care
- Time
- rated from the preceding 24 hours; bedside scoring time not established
- Items
- 30
Evidence
Evidence maturityNo eligible DTA study identified
More evidence and citation details
- Full name
- Delirium Motoric Checklist
- Evidence summary
- development-only
- Citation
- Meagher DJ, Moran M, Raju B, Gibbons D, Donnelly S, Saunders J, Trzepacz PT Motor symptoms in 100 patients with delirium versus control subjects: comparison of subtyping methods Psychosomatics. 2008;49(4):300-308. PMID 18621935
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- Version
- Historical checklist/predecessor associated with development of the DMSS
- Information checked
- 2026-07-19
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