Topic Resources

DELIRIUM

Journal Articles

Ely, E.W., Margolin, R., Francis, J., May, L., Truman, B., Dittus, R, Speroff, T., Gautam, S., Bernard, G., & Inouye, S. (2001). Evaluation of delirium in critically ill patients: Validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU). Critical Care Medicine, 29(7), 1370-1379. Evidence Level IV: Nonexperimental study.

Fick, D., Kolanowski, A., Waller, J., & Inouye, S.K. (2005). Delirium superimposed on dementia in a community-living managed care population: A three year retrospective study of prevalence, costs, and utilization. Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 60A(6), 748-753.

Inouye, S.K. (2006). Delirium in older persons. NEJM, 354, 1157-65. Evidence Level VI: Expert Opinion.

Inouye, S.K., Bogardus, S.T. Jr., Charpentier, P.A., Leo-Summers, L., Acampora, D., Holford, T.R., & Cooney, L.M., Jr. (1999). A multicomponent intervention to prevent delirium in hospitalized older patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 340, 669-676.  Evidence Level II: Single Experimental Study.

Inouye, S.K., Foreman, M.D., Mion, L.C., Katz, K.H., & Cooney, L.M. (2001). Nurses’ recognition of delirium and its symptoms: Comparison of nurse and researcher ratings. Archives of Internal Medicine, 161, 2467-2473. Evidence Level IV: Nonexperimental study.

Inouye, S., van Dyck, C., Alessi, C., Balkin, S., Siegal, A. & Horwitz, R. (1990). Clarifying confusion: The confusion assessment method. Annals of Internal Medicine, 113(12), 941-948. Evidence Level IV: Nonexperimental study.

Laurila, J.V., Pitkala, K.H., Strandberg, T.E., & Tilvis, R.S. (2002).  Confusion assessment method in the diagnostics of delirium among aged hospital patients: Would it serve better in screening than as a diagnostic instrument?  International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17(12), 1112-1119. Evidence Level IV: Nonexperimental study.

Schuurmans, M.J., Deschamps, P.I., Markham, S.W., Shortridge-Baggett, L.M. & Duursma, S.A. (2003). The measurement of delirium: Review of scales. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice: An International Journal, 17(3), 207-224. Evidence Level V: Literature Review.

Segatore, M., & Adams, D. (2001). Managing delirium and agitation in elderly hospitalized orthopaedic patients: Part I-Theoretical aspects.  Orthopaedic Nursing, 20(1), 31-45.

Waszynski, C.M.  (2007). How to try this: Detecting delirium.  AJN, 107(12), 50-60. Available online at http://www.nursingcenter.com/prodev/ce_article.asp?tid=756744

 

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