Table 2.
Performance of nurses’ informal delirium ratings pre and post-test*
|
Pre test |
Post-test |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
Gold standard° |
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|
Gold standard° |
|
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| Nurses’ ratings | Delirium | No Delirium | Total | Nurses’ ratings | Delirium | No delirium | Total |
| Delirium |
3 |
0 |
3 |
Delirium |
2 |
7 |
9 |
| No delirium |
8 |
59 |
67 |
No delirium |
3 |
108 |
111 |
| Total |
11 |
59 |
70 |
Total |
5 |
115 |
120 |
| Sensitivity: 0.27 |
Sensitivity: 0.40 |
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| Specificity: 0.98 | Specificity: 0.94 | ||||||
*In the post-test period ED nurses were interviewed to informally rate prevalence of delirium before they conducted a formal mCAM-ED assessment.
°The research assistants’ mCAM-ED ratings, confirmed by the senior emergency physician’s re-assessment served as gold standard.