title: The Johns Hopkins Delirium Consortium: a model for collaborating across disciplines and departments for delirium prevention and treatment.
abstract: Delirium is an important syndrome affecting inpatients in various hospital settings. This article focuses on multidisciplinary and interdepartmental collaboration to advance efforts in delirium clinical care and research. The Johns Hopkins Delirium Consortium, which includes members from the disciplines of nursing, medicine, rehabilitation therapy, psychology, and pharmacy within the departments and divisions of anesthesiology, geriatrics, oncology, orthopedic surgery, psychiatry, critical care medicine, and physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, is one model of such collaboration. This article describes the process involved in developing functional collaboration around delirium and highlights projects, opportunities, and challenges resulting from them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. kneufel2@jhmi.edu
authors.forename: Karin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Neufeld
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Joseph Bienvenu
authors.forename: Paul B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
authors.forename: Simon C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Mears
authors.forename: Hochang B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Biren B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Kamdar
authors.forename: Frederick E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Sieber
authors.forename: Sharon K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Krumm
authors.forename: Jeremy D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Walston
authors.forename: David N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Hager
authors.forename: Pegah
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Touradji
authors.forename: Dale M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Needham
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003693:Delirium / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D017146:Models, Organizational
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