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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2017 May 9;26(8):945–953. doi: 10.1002/pds.4226

Table 4.

Delirium-Identification Algorithms in Administrative Claims and Drug Utilization Database in the Literature

Algorithms (Reference standard) Population (N delirium / N total) Sensitivity (95% CI) Specificity (95% CI) PPV (95% CI) NPV (95% CI)
Johnson 199212
14 ICD-9 diagnosis codesa (DSM III)
Medical (47/235) 0.09 (0.02, 0.20) NR NR NR
Inouye 200511
8 ICD-9 diagnosis codesb (CAM)
Medical (115/919) 0.03 (0.01, 0.07) 0.99 (0.99, 1.00) 0.38 (0.09, 0.76) 0.88 (0.85, 0.90)
Katznelson 201013
ICD-10 diagnosis codesc (CAM-ICU)
Cardiac surgery (182/1528) 0.18 (0.13, 0.25) 0.99 (0.98, 1.00) 0.72 (0.56, 0.84) 0.90 (0.88, 0.91)
Campbell 201415
ICD-9 diagnosis codesc (CAM)
Medical (163/424) 0.32 (0.25, 0.40) 0.85 (0.80, 0.89) 0.57 (0.46, 0.67) 0.67 (0.61, 0.72)
Hope 201410
8 ICD-9 diagnosis codesd (expert consensus)
Medical, surgical, ICU (25/NR) 0.28 (0.12, 0.49) NR NR NR
Bui 201614
32 ICD-9 diagnosis codese (CAM-ICU)
Surgical ICU (423/1055) 0.36 (0.31, 0.40) 0.95 (0.93, 0.97) 0.83 (0.76, 0.88) 0.69 (0.66, 0.72)
Rothberg 201318
Use of any of 4 APMsf (medical record)
Medical (NR) NR NR 0.55 (0.39, 0.70) NR
Loh 201417
Use of any of 5 APMsg (medical record)
Medical, surgical, ICU (NR) NR NR 0.83 (0.78, 0.87) NR
Herzig 201626
Use of any of 20 APMsh (medical record)
Medical, surgical, ICU (NR) NR NR 0.65 (0.55, 0.74) NR

Abbreviations: APM, antipsychotic medications; CAM, Confusion Assessment Method; CI, confidence interval; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; ICD, International Classification of Diseases; ICU, intensive care unit; NPV, negative predictive value; NR, not reported; PPV, positive predictive value.

a

ICD-9 diagnosis codes include 290.11, 290.3, 290.41, 291.0, 292.0, 292.1, 292.12, 292.2, 292.81, 292.9, 293.0, 293.1, 293.9, and 780.0.

b

ICD-9 diagnosis codes include 290.11, 290.3, 290.41, 291.0, 292.81, 293.0, 293.1, and 780.09.

c

ICD diagnosis codes were not specified.

d

ICD-9 diagnosis codes include 290.3, 291, 291.1, 292, 292.81, 293, 293.1, and 780.09.

e

ICD-9 diagnosis codes include 290.11–290.13, 290.20, 290.3, 290.41–290.43, 290.8, 290.9, 291.0, 292.0–292.2, 292.81, 292.82, 293.0–293.9, 348.30, 348.31, 348.39, 349.82, 780.02, 780.09, and 780.97.

f

Antipsychotic medications included aripiprazole, haloperidol, risperidone, and ziprasidone, and excluded olanzapine.

g

Antipsychotic medications included haloperidol, thorazine, olanzapine, quetiapine, and risperidone.

h

Antipsychotic medications included aripiprazole, asenapine, chlorpromazine, clozapine, fluphenazine, haloperidol, iloperidone, loxapine, lurasidone, molindone, olanzapine, paliperidone, perphenazine, pimozide, quetiapine, risperidone, thioridazine, thiothixene, trifluoperazine, and ziprasidone.