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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2012 Oct 5;60(11):2005–2013. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04199.x

Table 2.

Characteristics of included studies: delirium raters, and quality of methodology and reporting.

Tools (Author, Year) Definition of dementia and dementia rater Delirium rater DSM
criteria		 Delirium
rater delirium
tool		 Time
between
assessment for delirium and DSM rater		 Quality of
methods (1–14)a 		Quality of
data report
(1–25)b
SPMSQ (Erkinjuntti1987)22 DSM (Neurologist) Neurologist Psychologist Not reported 10 11
CAM (Inouye 1990)24 DSM-III-R (Psychiatrist) Geriatric psychiatrists Geriatrician Maximum 6 hours 13 25
DRS (Rosen 1994)26 DSM-III-R (Geriatric psychiatrists) Geriatric psychiatrists Research clinician Not reported 11 20
CTD (Hart 1996)23 DSM-III-R, MDRS (Neuropsychologist) Psychiatrist Research nurses Not reported 9 19
CAM-ICU (Ely 2001)20 DSM-IV;BDRS (geriatrician, geriatric psychiatrist ; nurses) Geriatrician, geriatric psychiatrist neuropsychologist Research nurses ≤ 4 hours 13 24
CAM-ICU (Ely 2001)21 DSM-IV;BDRS (geriatrician, geriatric psychiatrist ; nurses) Geriatrician, geriatric psychiatrist Research nurses, intensivists ≤ 4 hours 13 24
CAM-ICU (Mitasova2011)27 BDRS (neuropsychologist) Neurologist, neuropsychologist, psychiatrist, speech therapist Neurology resident <2 hours 13 23
EEG (Thomas 2007)28 IQCODE, DSM-IV, neuropsychological tests (geriatrician, geriatric psychiatrist, gerontologist, neurologist) Geriatrician, geriatric psychiatrist, gerontologist, neurologist Neurophysiologist Not reported 10 21
CAM (Hestermann2009)25 IQCODE, DSM-IV (psychologist, gerontologist;geriatric psychiatrist) Geriatric psychiatrist, geriatrician Psychologist, gerontologist ≤ 3 hours 13 19

Abbreviations: BDRS, Blessed dementia rating scale score; CAM, Confusion Assessment Method; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; DRS, Delirium Rating Scale; CAM-ICU, Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit; CTD, Cognitive Test for Delirium; EEG, electroencephalography; IQCODE, Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly; Mattis Dementia Rating Scale, MDRS; NA, non available; SPMSQ, Short-Portable Mental Status Questionnaire.

a

Quality of study methodology was assessed with the Assessment of Methodological Quality (QUADAS tool): score range 1–14 (higher=better).19

b

Quality of data reporting was evaluated with the Assessment of Quality of Reporting (STARD criteria): score range 1–25 (higher=better).18