In addition to diagnostic criteria, delirium research requires standardized instruments to measure symptoms. This article reviews the literature about the Delirium Rating Scale (DRS), the most widely used scale to assess delirium that has been translated into at least seven other languages.
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The DRS-R-98, a 16-item clinician-rated scale with 13 severity items and 3 diagnostic items, was validated against the Cognitive Test for Delirium (CTD), Clinical Global Impression scale (CGI), and Delirium Rating Scale (DRS) among five diagnostic groups (N=68): delirium, dementia, depression, schizophrenia, and other.
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the maximum rating is for the most abrupt onset of symtpoms - a common pattern for delirium. Dementia is usually more gradual in onset (Lipowski, 1982). Other psychiatric disorders, ... The Delirium Rating Scale (DRS) Reprinted from Psychiatry Research, Vol 23, by Paula T. Trzepacz, Robert W. Waker, and Joel Greehouse,
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Another screening tool is the Confusion Assessment Method.3 The Delirium Rating Scale (DRS)4 and the Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale (MDAS)5 measure the severity of delirium.
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Trzepacz PT, Baker RW, Greenhouse J: A symptom rating scale for delirium. Psychiatry Research 23: 89-97, 1988. ... Breitbart W, Rosenfeld B, Roth A, et al.: The Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 13(3): 128-137, 1997.
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Eighteen delirious (D) and 43 delirious-demented (D-D) patients were compared on the Delirium Rating Scale (DRS), Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), and EEG. D-D patients had lower MMSE scores, but no differences were found in total DRS or BPRS scores or in EEG grade.
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The Delirium Rating Scale is a clinician-rated, 10-item symptom rating scale for assessment of delirium severity. In order to better understand the relationship between items of the scale and whether they reflect one or more underlying groupings or dimensions, further analyses of the originally published scale data...
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