Implementing delirium screening in the ICU: Secrets to success

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2196-2208

  Brummel, Nathan E ^a,b   Vasilevskis, Eduard E ^a,b   Han, Jin Ho ^b   Boehm, Leanne ^c   Pun, Brenda T ^b   Ely, E Wesley ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confusion Assessment Method for the intensive care unit; delirium; implementation; intensive care; Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist; monitoring; nursing; process improvement; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; OPIATE;

AROUSAL; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN ROADMAP; CAM ICU; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE TEST FOR DELIRIUM; CONSCIOUSNESS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DELIRIUM; DELIRIUM DETECTION SCORE; DELIRIUM SCREENING; DSM-IV; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEARING AID; HUMAN; ICDSC; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL EXPERT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NURSING DELIRIUM SCREENING SCALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; RICHMOND AGITATION SEDATION SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SEDATION; SEDATION AGITATION SCALE; SPECTACLES; TEACHING; TRAINING; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ADULT; CHECKLIST; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELIRIUM; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MASS SCREENING; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84883652825     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829a6f1e     Document Type: Review

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