A nurse-led interdisciplinary intervention program for delirium in elderly hip-fracture patients

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 523-532

  Milisen, Koen ^a,b   Foreman, Marquis D ^c   Abraham, Ivo L ^d,e   De Geest, Sabina ^a,f   Godderis, Jan ^a   Vandermeulen, Erik ^b   Fischler, Benjamin ^b   Delooz, Herman H ^b   Spiessens, Bart ^a   Broos, Paul L O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Delirium; Hip fracture; Intervention; Older

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORPETHIDINE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PROPACETAMOL; TRAMADOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NURSING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC NURSING; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035015872     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49109.x     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Acute confusion in the elderly
2. Postoperative confusion after anesthesia in elderly patients with femoral neck fractures
3. Problems of basic nursing care in acutely confused and non-confused hip-fracture patients
4. Postoperative confusion in elderly hip surgical patients
5. Acute confusional states in elderly patients treated for femoral neck fractures
6. A geriatric-anesthesiologic program to reduce acute confusional states in elderly patients treated for femoral neck fractures
7. Reducing acute confusional states in elderly patients with hip fractures
8. Postoperative variation in neurocognitive and functional status in elderly hip fracture patients
9. ADL performance and dependency on nursing care in patients with hip fractures and acute confusion in a task allocation care system
10. What we know about treating confusion
11. Nursing activities and acute confusional states in elderly hip-fractured patients
12. A prospective study of delirium in hospitalized elderly
13. Adverse consequences of hospitalization in the elderly
14. Iatrogenic illness on a general medical service at a university hospital
15. Acute confusional states (delirium) in the hospitalized elderly
16. Acute confusional states in critically ill patients: A review
17. Home going: Prognostic factors concerning the major goal in treatment of elderly hip fracture patients
18. Hip fractures in the elderly: Mortality, functional results and social readaptation
19. Systematic intervention for elderly inpatients with delirium: A randomized trial
20. The Yale Geriatric Care Program: A model to prevent functional decline in hospitalized elderly patients
21. A controlled trial of a nursing-centered intervention in hospitalized elderly medical patients: The Yale Geriatric Care Program
22. Nursing interventions and acute confusional states in elderly surgical patients
23. Acute confusion in elderly medical patients
24. Functional status outcomes of a nursing intervention in hospitalized elderly
25. The Mini-Mental State Examination: A comprehensive review
26. Underdiagnosis and poor documentation of acute confusional states in elderly fracture patients
27. Unrecognized delirium in ED geriatric patients
28. Delirium in the elderly: Nursing assessment and management
29. Increasing the recognition of delirium in elderly patients
30. Development, implementation and evaluation of a confusion protocol
31. Clarifying confusion: The confusion assessment method
32. Delirium in the emergency department
33. Acute confusional states in hospitalized elderly: A research dilemma
34. Assessing cognitive functioning
35. The NEECHAM Confusion Scale: Construction, validation, and clinical testing
36. Treatment of pain in cognitively impaired compared with cognitively intact older patients with hip fracture
37. The impact of postoperative pain on the development of postoperative delirium
38. Cognitive status and postoperative pain: Older adults
39. The management of chronic pain in older persons: Clinical practice guidelines
40. Drug-induced delirium: Incidence, management and prevention
41. Drug-induced delirium: Diagnosis and treatment
42. The relationship of postoperative delirium with psychoactive medications
43. Pharmacologic management of acute pain in the orthopaedic patient
44. Pain in the elderly
45. "Mini-Mental Statee": A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician
46. Detecting delirium among hospitalized older persons
47. Detection and diagnosis of delirium in the elderly: Psychiatrist diagnosis, confusion assessment method, or consensus diagnosis?
48. A critique of instruments and methods to detect, diagnose and rate delirium
49. Cognitive screening of nursing home residents: Factor structures of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
50. A measure of primary sociobiological functions
51. A scale for the functional status of the elderly living at home
52. Katz index of independence in ADL: Reliability and validity in short-term care
53. Scales to measure competence in everyday-activities
54. Sensitivity, specificity and predictive value in Katz's and Barthel's ADL indices applied on patients in long term nursing care
55. Care of the acutely confused elderly hip fracture patient: Empirical studies and an ethical model for care
56. A multicomponent intervention to prevent delirium in hospitalized older patients
57. Prognosis after hospital discharge of older medical patients with delirium
58. Does delirium contribute to poor hospital outcomes? A three-site epidemiologic study
59. Acute delirium and functional decline in the hospitalized elderly patient
60. The prognostic significance of delirium in older hospital patients
61. Functional outcome of cognitively impaired hip fracture patients on a geriatric rehabilitation unit
62. Risk factors for lack of recovery of ADL independence after hospital discharge
63. Benzodiazepine use as a cause of cognitive impairment in elderly hospital inpatients
64. Delirium in newly admitted elderly patients: A prospective study
65. A simple model for predicting postoperative delirium in older patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgery
66. Delirium in hospitalized older persons: Outcomes and predictors
67. Risk factors for delirium in hospitalized elderly
68. Post-operative delirium: Predictors and prognosis in elderly orthopedic patients