Documentation of acute change in mental status in nursing homes highlights opportunity to augment infection surveillance criteria

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• Alternative Title:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
• Personal Author:
  Penna, Austin R. ; Sancken, Christina L. ; Stone, Nimalie D. ; Eure, Taniece R. ; Bamberg, Wendy ; Barney, Grant ; Barter, Devra ; Carswell, Stacy ; Clogher, Paula ; Dumyati, Ghinwa ; Felsen, Christina B. ; Frank, Linda ; Godine, Deborah ; Johnston, Helen ; Kainer, Marion A. ; Li, Linda ; Lynfield, Ruth ; Mahoehney, J. P. ; Nadle, Joelle ; Pierce, Rebecca ; Ray, Susan M. ; Davis, Sarah Shrum ; Sievers, Marla ; Wilson, Lucy E. ; Zhang, Alexia Y. ; Magill, Shelley S. ; Thompson, Nicola D.
• Description:
  Acute change in mental status (ACMS), defined by the Confusion Assessment Method, is used to identify infections in nursing home residents. A medical record review revealed that none of 15,276 residents had an ACMS documented. Using the revised McGeer criteria with a possible ACMS definition, we identified 296 residents and 21 additional infections. The use of a possible ACMS definition should be considered for retrospective nursing home infection surveillance.
• Subjects:
  Article Documentation Humans Infections Mental Disorders Nursing Care Nursing Homes Retrospective Studies
• Source:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 41(7):848-850
• Pubmed ID:
  32340639
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8668157
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  41
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b9dfe4fd1e09dafd3fc135bd012279b3cb3114f91d0ccbcef824aa7ff1a7372e
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112557/cdc_112557_DS1.pdf
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