eDIS-ICU: Electronic Delirium Screening Tool for the ICU
2021A purpose-designed ICU screening app intended to support efficient delirium case-finding without specialist expertise. Promising pilot accuracy requires confirmation in a definitive, larger validation study.
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
- Original paperSutt AL, Flaws D, Gunn H, Eeles E, Lye I, Irvine L, et al. Screening for delirium in the intensive care unit using eDIS-ICU - A purpose-designed app: A pilot study. Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses. 2021;34(6):547-551. doi: 10.1016/j.aucc.2020.12.008. PMID: 33766486.
This is the original published source for eDIS-ICU. It reported sensitivity of 85.7% and specificity of 72.7% against an independent DSM-5 clinical assessment.
At a glance
- Purpose
- Episodic assessment
- Population
- Adult
- Setting
- Intensive care
- Time
- designed for efficient app-guided screening; exact completion time not reported
- Score or threshold
- App classification of probable delirium; use the authorised app or publication for the full algorithm
Format: eDIS-ICU guides the assessor through an app-based workflow and returns a probable-delirium classification. The exact prompts, item count, timing and algorithm should be obtained from the developers or publication rather than reconstructed from this page.
Evidence
Reported sensitivity and specificity
Original/source study · 2021 — pmid:33766486
- Denominator
- Reported source unit: 29 (analysis unit not fully reconciled)
- Reference standard
- Expert DSM-5 diagnosis
Earliest DTA evaluation identified in the current audit; see the linked source and methodological caveats.
More evidence and citation details
- Full name
- Electronic Delirium Screening Tool for the ICU
- Also known as
- eDIS ICU
- Related profiles
- eDIS-MED
- Evidence summary
- single-pilot-DTA
- Diagnostic-accuracy studies
- 1
- Reference standard
- Expert DSM-5 diagnosis
- Citation
- Sutt AL, Flaws D, Gunn H, Eeles E, Lye I, Irvine L, Patterson S, Bagshaw T, O'Luanaigh C, Tronstad O, Fraser J Screening for delirium in the intensive care unit using eDIS-ICU - A purpose-designed app: A pilot study Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses. 2021;34(6):547-551. PMID 33766486
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- 2026-07-19
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