_id
683a1630c782e11e38d1b262
id
10090
complaint
[ "Agitation", "AMS", "Anxious" ]
departments
[ "Neurologic", "Psychiatric" ]
description
The AWOL Score for Delirium predicts risk of delirium during hospitalization.
diseases
[ "Delirium", "Dementia" ]
evidence
formula
Addition of the selected points:
|
Variable |
Points |
|
|
Age |
<80 years |
0 |
|
≥80 years |
1 |
|
|
Correctly spells “world” backward |
Yes |
0 |
|
No |
1 |
|
|
Oriented to city, state, county, hospital name, and floor |
Yes |
0 |
|
No |
1 |
|
|
Nursing illness severity assessment |
Not ill |
0 |
|
Mildly ill |
0 |
|
|
Moderately ill |
1 |
|
|
Severely ill |
1 | |
|
Moribund |
1 | |
full_title
AWOL Score for Delirium
information
Interpretation:
|
AWOL Score |
Risk of delirium during hospitalization |
|
0 |
2% |
|
1 |
4% |
|
2 |
14% |
|
3 |
20% |
|
4 |
64% |
input_schema
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{ "conditionality": "", "default": 0, "label_en": "Correctly spells “world” backward", "name": "world", "optional": false, "options": [ { "label": "Yes", "value": 0 }, { "label": "No", "value": 1 } ], "show_points": true, "type": "toggle" }
{ "conditionality": "", "default": 0, "label_en": "Oriented to city, state, county, hospital name, and floor", "name": "orient", "optional": false, "options": [ { "label": "Yes", "value": 0 }, { "label": "No", "value": 1 } ], "show_points": true, "type": "toggle" }
{ "conditionality": "", "default": 0, "label_en": "Nursing illness severity assessment", "name": "nursing", "optional": false, "options": [ { "label": "Not ill", "value": 0 }, { "label": "Mildly ill", "value": 0 }, { "label": "Moderately ill", "value": 1 }, { "label": "Severely ill", "value": 1 }, { "label": "Moribund", "value": 1 } ], "show_points": true, "type": "radio" }
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instructions
ismed
false
keywords
Delirious, risk of delirium
measurements
[]
med_description
Predicts risk of delirium during hospitalization.
next_actions
next_advice
Consider delirium prevention measures in patients with higher AWOL scores.
next_management
pearls
Validated in English speakers (backwards spelling of "WORLD"); however, in some languages, may be translated directly using a different word, or, in languages that use characters to represent words, may modify task to serial 7s.
published
purpose
[ "Prognosis" ]
reasons
refrences
{ "Clinical Practice Guidelines": [ { "href": "", "text": "" } ], "Manufacturer Website": [ { "href": "", "text": "" } ], "Original/Primary Reference": [ { "href": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922253", "text": "Douglas VC, Hessler CS, Dhaliwal G, et al. The AWOL tool: derivation and validation of a delirium prediction rule. J Hosp Med. 2013;8(9):493-9." } ], "Other References": [ { "href": "", "text": "" } ], "Outcomes": [ { "href": "", "text": "" } ], "Validation": [ { "href": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28533062", "text": "Brown EG, Josephson SA, Anderson N, Reid M, Lee M, Douglas VC. Predicting inpatient delirium: The AWOL delirium risk-stratification score in clinical practice. Geriatr Nurs. 2017;38(6):567-572." } ] }
related
[ { "calcId": 10172, "short_title_en": "Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium (CAPD)", "slug": "cornell-assessment-pediatric-delirium-capd" }, { "calcId": 1872, "short_title_en": "Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS)", "slug": "richmond-agitation-sedation-scale-rass" }, { "calcId": 3982, "short_title_en": "4AT", "slug": "4-test-delirium-assessment" } ]
search_terms
[ "Delirious", "risk of delirium" ]
section
[ "pearlsPitfallsViewed", "nextStepsViewed", "evidenceViewed" ]
seo
{ "keywords_en": "Delirious, risk of delirium", "meta_description_en": "The AWOL Score for Delirium predicts risk of delirium during hospitalization." }
short_description
Delirium risk.
short_title
AWOL Score for Delirium
slug
awol-score-delirium
specialty
[ "Hospitalist Medicine", "Internal Medicine", "Neurology", "Psychiatry" ]
tags
[]
title
AWOL Score for Delirium
usecase
version_number
versions
[]
cleaned_departments
[ "neurology", "psychiatry" ]
cleaned_use
[]
pub
false