NH-CAM: Nursing Home Confusion Assessment Method
2007NH-CAM is a research method for identifying possible delirium in long-term-care data derived from routinely collected Minimum Data Set information. It is not a prospective bedside form.
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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 paperDosa 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. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2007;55(7):1099-105. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01239.x. PMID: 17608886.
This is the original published source for NH-CAM. It is the main source for the method, its intended use and the evidence available at publication.
At a glance
- Purpose
- Retrospective ascertainment
- Population
- Adult
- Setting
- Long-term / care home
- Time
- variable
Format: It is a monitoring / repeated screening instrument for adult use in Long-term / care home. The stated administration time is variable.
Evidence
Reported metric context
Derived from MDS; validated against mortality/rehospitalisation risk, not a clinical reference standard.
More evidence and citation details
- Full name
- Nursing Home Confusion Assessment Method
- Also known as
- NH-CAM, Nursing Home CAM
- Evidence summary
- single
- Citation
- Dosa 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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- 2026-07-19
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