K-ICDST — Korean Intensive Care Delirium Screening Tool

What this tool is and how to interpret its evidence

Published in 2016, K-ICDST is described here as intensive care, monitoring / repeated screening, screening / case-finding for adults in intensive care. The linked study examined it in Intensive care. The recorded form contains 12 scored items or observations. The reported administration time is nurse observation; exact completion time not reported in the abstract. The catalogue records the published scoring or threshold information as Total ≥4 of 12.

The linked source is Nam AR and colleagues, [Development of Korean Intensive Care Delirium Screening Tool (KICDST)] in Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing (2016); this catalogue treats it as original/source and earliest DTA study. For K-ICDST, the evidence stage is one eligible diagnostic-accuracy study. The reconciled DTA dataset associates 1 eligible study with K-ICDST. The earliest listed evaluation used Korean CAM-ICU rather than an independent expert DSM assessment as its reference standard. The first recorded accuracy result reports sensitivity 95% and specificity 93.7%; the recorded sample is 180. AUC 0.98 in the development cohort of 180 ICU patients; comparator was Korean CAM-ICU.

Repeated K-ICDST observation may capture fluctuation, but interpretation depends on when and how observations are collected. Arousal, sedation and communication constraints are relevant when interpreting an intensive-care assessment. For K-ICDST, no verified public instrument form is recorded; the source article documents the tool but is not a substitute administration form.