DOM: Delirium-O-Meter
2005Nurse-rated behavioural scale for monitoring delirium severity, capturing both hyperactive and hypoactive features.
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Original paper
- Original paperde Jonghe JF, Kalisvaart KJ, Timmers JF, Kat MG, Jackson JC. Delirium-O-Meter: a nurses' rating scale for monitoring delirium severity in geriatric patients. International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 2005;20(12):1158-66. doi: 10.1002/gps.1410. PMID: 16315151.
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At a glance
- Purpose
- Measurement of delirium severity
- Population
- Adult
- Setting
- General / acute hospital
- Time
- brief; exact completion time not reported in the primary abstract
- Items
- 12
Format: A 12-item nurse-rated behavioural scale for repeated delirium-severity observation, covering cognitive/motivational and psychotic/behavioural manifestations.
- Strengths: Nurse-rated repeated monitoring; convergent, divergent and change-score validity reported
- Limitations: Single geriatric general-hospital validation study; severity measure rather than diagnostic rule
Evidence
Reported metric context
In 92 older general-hospital patients, DOM totals related strongly to DRS-R-98, DOSS and MMSE scores; day-to-day DOM and DRS-R-98 changes correlated at rho 0.80-0.95.
More evidence and citation details
- Full name
- Delirium-O-Meter
- Also known as
- DOM
- Evidence summary
- psychometric-validation
- Reliability
- Cronbach alpha 0.87-0.92; total-score ICC 0.84-0.91
- Citation
- de Jonghe JF, Kalisvaart KJ, Timmers JF, Kat MG, Jackson JC Delirium-O-Meter: a nurses' rating scale for monitoring delirium severity in geriatric patients International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 2005;20(12):1158-66. PMID 16315151
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- 2026-07-19
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