NH-CAM — Nursing Home Confusion Assessment Method

2007

A method for identifying delirium in long-term care from routinely collected Minimum Data Set (MDS) items, stratifying residents' risk of death and rehospitalisation.

Monitoring / repeated screeningSingle validation study

Derived from MDS; validated against mortality/rehospitalisation risk, not a clinical reference standard.

Full nameNursing Home Confusion Assessment Method

Also known asNH-CAM, Nursing Home CAM

PurposeMonitoring / repeated screening

PopulationAdult

SettingLong-term / care home

Items—

Administrationvariable

EvidenceSingle validation study

Reference typeOriginal validation study

ReferenceDosa D, Intrator O, McNicoll L, Cang Y, Teno J. Preliminary derivation of a Nursing Home Confusion Assessment Method based on data from the Minimum Data Set. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007;55(7):1099-105. PMID 17608886

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