RMA: RADAR plus Months of the Year Backwards
2024A two-stage nurse-clinician screen instrument for older acute hospital inpatients. It entered the published record in 2024 and is included in the current bedside-core audit as a named tool for current delirium or acute confusion.
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 paperSoboh R, Gino-Moor S, Jiris N, Ginsberg S, Oliven R. Validation of a viable delirium detection test performed by nurses and physicians during routine patient care. BMC geriatrics. 2024;24(1):297. doi: 10.1186/s12877-024-04884-8. PMID: 38549098.
This paper reports the original validation of RMA. It reported sensitivity of 93.9% and specificity of 98.3% against 4AT-derived delirium classification (≥5; acute/chronic information partly supplied from RMA record).
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At a glance
- Purpose
- Episodic assessment
- Population
- Adult
- Setting
- General / acute hospital
- Time
- variable
- Score or threshold
- RMA positive
Format: This site classifies it under episodic assessment. It is intended for adult use in General / acute hospital. The stated administration time is variable. The published result is recorded using RMA positive.
Evidence
Reported sensitivity and specificity
Original/source study · 2024 — pmid:38549098
- Denominator
- Reported source unit: 384 (analysis unit not fully reconciled)
- Reference standard
- 4AT-derived delirium classification (≥5; acute/chronic information partly supplied from RMA record)
Earliest DTA evaluation identified in the current audit; see the linked source and methodological caveats.
More evidence and citation details
- Full name
- RADAR plus Months of the Year Backwards
- Also known as
- RMA, RADAR&MOYB, RADAR + MOYB
- Related profiles
- RADAR
- Evidence summary
- multi
- Diagnostic-accuracy studies
- 2
- Reference standard
- 4AT-derived delirium classification (≥5; acute/chronic information partly supplied from RMA record)
- Citation
- Soboh R, Gino-Moor S, Jiris N, Ginsberg S, Oliven R Validation of a viable delirium detection test performed by nurses and physicians during routine patient care BMC geriatrics. 2024;24(1):297. PMID 38549098
Copyright and reuse
- Information checked
- 2026-07-19
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