Brief Delirium Assessments in Non-Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Patients

Withdrawn before enrolling

Conditions studied: Delirium

In brief

Delirium is an acute confusional state characterized by fluctuating mental status, inattention, and either disorganized thinking or an altered level of consciousness. This form of organ dysfunction occurs in up to 50% of hospitalized patients and is associated with worsening mortality, prolonged hospital length of stay, higher health care costs, and accelerated functional and cognitive decline. Despite the negative consequences of delirium, the majority of cases are unrecognized by hospital physicians because it is not routinely screened for. In an effort to facilitate delirium screening, we sought to validate two brief delirium assessments (\<2 minutes) in the hospital setting.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01162369

Run by

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

People needed

0

Starts

2013-07-01

Expected to finish

2016-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-05-07

Who can join

Age: 65 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 65 years of age or greater
• In the non-ICU inpatient setting
• Consulted and evaluated by psychiatry

You may not qualify if…

• Severe mental retardation or dementia
• Baseline communication barriers such aphasia, deafness, blindness, or who are unable to speak English
• Refusal of consent
• Previous enrollment
• Comatose
• Out of hospital before the assessments are completed

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt University Hospital — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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