Strategies to improve delirium recognition in hospitalized older adults.
As 24-hour caregivers, nurses' detection of delirium is critical to physician diagnosis because of the waxing and waning of delirium-related clinical features. However, nurses fail to accurately interpret delirium-related clinical features more than 30% of the time.
The Center for Nursing Research, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA, USA. krice@ochsner.org
Karen L
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Rice
Julie
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Castex
D000368:Aged; D003693:Delirium / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital