PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - LK Beales AU - M Mercuri TI - BET 1: Screening for delirium within the emergency department AID - 10.1136/emermed-2016-206204.1 DP - 2016 Oct 01 TA - Emergency Medicine Journal PG - 741--743 VI - 33 IP - 10 4099 - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/10/741.2.short 4100 - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/10/741.2.full SO - Emerg Med J2016 Oct 01; 33 AB - A shortcut review was carried out to see if the abbreviated mental test score was better than other cognitive screening tools to diagnose delirium in the ED. Fourteen papers were identified reporting on 10 separate ED studies. Only one small study used the abbreviated mental test score and did not compare the diagnostic performance to any other test. There is very little published research on the use of the abbreviated mental test score in the ED setting.