K-APDS: Korean Adult Patients Delirium Screening Tool
2023A 12-observation Korean-language nurse screen developed for adults on general wards. It is a genuine emerging tool, but its same-study evaluation used another observational screen rather than a blinded specialist diagnosis.
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
- Principal sourceJeong HW, et al.. Development of a Korean Adult Patients Delirium Screening Tool. Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research. 2023. doi: 10.22650/JKCNR.2023.29.2.198.
This is the principal published source for K-APDS. 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
- Time
- nurse observation during a work shift; exact minutes not reported
- Items
- 12
- Score or threshold
- Total 2 or more of 12
Format: Twelve binary nurse-observed features form an eight-observation cognitive-impairment factor and a four-observation psychomotor-retardation factor. The responsible nurse rates observations made during the work shift.
Evidence
Reported sensitivity and specificity
At a threshold of 2 or more in the development cohort; positive predictive value 52.6% and negative predictive value 97.8%.
More evidence and citation details
- Full name
- Korean Adult Patients Delirium Screening Tool
- Related profiles
- DOSS
- Evidence summary
- development-and-internal-validation
- Reference standard
- Delirium Observation Screening Scale rather than a blinded specialist DSM assessment
- Citation
- Jeong HW, et al. Development of a Korean Adult Patients Delirium Screening Tool Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research. 2023;29(2):198-209. doi:10.22650/JKCNR.2023.29.2.198
Copyright and reuse
- Version
- Original 2023 Korean general-ward 12-item K-APDS
- Information checked
- 2026-07-19
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