[PDF] Top 20 Detecting delirium in patients with acute stroke: a systematic review of test accuracy

... of delirium [4], and the use of a gold standard tool to detect delirium not previously validated in patients with stroke ...assessing delirium with the gold ...“Index test” ... See full document

... initial, acute, febrile phase which may last 2–7 days after the development of fever, the WHO recommend the use of the Tourniquet Test (TT, also known as the Rumpel-Leede or Hess test) to support ... See full document

... state patients should be referred urgently if the prostate feels malignant on digital rectal examination and recommends performing digital rectal examination (DRE) on patients presenting with any lower ... See full document

... confused with delirium patients. One quarter of studies did not explain whether the assessor was blinded either to the reference test or index test. Therefore, these potentially unblinded ... See full document

... was performed. Funnel plots and Begg’s linear regression test were used to evaluate publication bias. A prespecified sensitivity analysis was performed by omitting one single study in each turn. Meta-regression ... See full document

... in patients suspected of having suffered an acute stroke is ...haemorrhagic stroke cases which is the main requirement for this technique to be used in the reliable pre-hospital triage ...tic ... See full document

... of patients and the threshold value used for the index tests was the same in all the studies, we performed a meta‑analysis of the index test results using a bivariate mixed effects binomial regression ...of ... See full document

... our systematic review, we found only five studies of the diagnostic ac- curacy of tests for delirium in the PICU ...studies, delirium was common, with a preva- lence of 13% to 28% (excluding ... See full document

... in acute ischemic stroke patients in China and ...in acute ischemic stroke patients without previous ...Methods: Acute ischemic stroke patients without ... See full document

... 300 patients reporting diagnostic accuracy were ...diagnostic accuracy. Tools for identification of stroke mimics showed sensitivity varying from 44 to 91%, and specificity of 27 to 98% with ... See full document

... of delirium according to DSM-5 criteria and the accompanying guidance notes, especially considering that delirium is much more common than alternative ...‘ delirium ’ being applied to this case, with ... See full document

... of delirium, may not be typical of these ...the delirium knowledge deficit, and viewed this as problematic in the light of the high level of risk among one group of their patients, namely older ... See full document

... and accuracy of screening tools and scores is likely to impact on reported prevalence ...the stroke team rather than an eye team specialist or where screening tools are used which only measure specific ... See full document

... cancer, systematic in fl ammation and increased intravenous fl uid; (2) tubular secretion apart from glomerular fi ltration; (3) non-renal elimination of vancomycin, such as hepatic conjugation; (4) cancer and ... See full document

... Of the 52 women with a history of PAS, 26 (50%) had subsequent pregnancies; the studies by Ciron et al. [27] and Ferro et al. [23] were excluded from this calculation, as they do not report the number of women with ... See full document

... our review suggests that age-bias needs to be considered in terms of younger as well as older stroke ...younger patients compared to older patients was found ...younger patients had ... See full document

... Legionnaires’ disease (LD) is an acute pneumonic illness caused by gram-negative bacilli of the genus Legionella, the most common of which is Legionella pneumophila (L.pneumophila) [1]. L.pneumophila is a motile, ... See full document

... of patients this raises issues of feasibility as there is strong potential for many individuals with suspected cognitive impairment not being ...to patients not hav- ing a suitable relative or carer ... See full document

... Increased left ventricular filling pressure is a common hemodynamic trigger for natriuretic peptides and B-pro- file. Wall distension is generally considered the main mechanical stimulus for natriuretic peptide ... See full document

... post- stroke fatigue (PSF) [86], even though it must be noted that there is insufficient evidence of an association between PSF and physical fitness to date ...after stroke, as it greatly reduces the effort ... See full document